Translations

This page explains how to translate Bromite-specific text introduced/modified by patches.

To translate a string we need to know:

• text to translate
• translation id
• locale file (.grd extension)

Text to translate

First identify where the text to translate is coming from; for example the Exit string is added by Add-exit-menu-item.patch.

We should find all new added strings from the grd(p) files and translate them to your locale.

Exit -> 退出

Translation id

The grit tool is necessary. Translation ids can be generated using following command:

python -c 'from grit.extern import tclib;print(tclib.GenerateMessageId("Exit"))'
9148058034647219655

This means that Exit corresponds to a translation ID of 9148058034647219655.

If you have checked-out the Chromium source code you can use the local version by prepending a declaration of PYTHONPATH=$PWD/tools/grit

Locale file

Usually a locale file can be found in the subdirectory of the .grd(p) files. In this case, the grd file is located at chrome/browser/ui/android/strings/android_chrome_strings.grd. And the locale file is located at chrome/browser/ui/android/strings/translations/android_chrome_strings_zh-CN.xtb

Now we can append our translation to the file and create a patch for it.

diff --git a/chrome/browser/ui/android/strings/translations/android_chrome_strings_zh-CN.xtb b/chrome/browser/ui/android/strings/translations/android_chrome_strings_zh-CN.xtb
index 8b4ba9c..edf495d 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/ui/android/strings/translations/android_chrome_strings_zh-CN.xtb
+++ b/chrome/browser/ui/android/strings/translations/android_chrome_strings_zh-CN.xtb
@@ -1264,4 +1264,5 @@
 <translation id="983192555821071799">关闭所有标签页</translation>
 <translation id="987264212798334818">常规</translation>
 <translation id="996149300115483134">动态卡片上的菜单已关闭</translation>
-</translationbundle>
\ No newline at end of file
+<translation id="9148058034647219655">退出</translation>
+</translationbundle>