Translation

Currently cnprog “understands” Chinese, English and Spanish.

To translation to another language – you need to work on two files:

• /locale/lang_code/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
• /templates/content/js/com.cnprog.i18n.js

Steps to translate django.po file

• create a directory /locale/your_lang_code/LC_MESSAGE
• copy a django.po file from the translation that you understand to that new directory
• translate strings that start with “msgstr”, keep strings “msgid” intact and preserve overall format.
• any strings that have a comment above them like #, fuzzy will not be shown as translated – verify translation for those and then remorve the “fuzzy” string.
• if a string takes variables – make sure to follow format of translation strings it should have things like %(the_variable)s to properly insert values
• also strings like that must have a comment just above msgstr

  #, python-format

• at any time run

  python manage.py compilemessages

  – that will create django.mo file that is actually feeding translations into the application

h.2 How does Django code connect with your translation

There are three use cases:

• simple 1 to 1 string mapping
• mapping with a variable substitution
• mapping with variable substitution and pluralization