Localisation Tools

This is a bash script that is designed to work with Alfresco and Alfresco's modules e.g. RM and projects e.g. Aikau.

It enables easy management of translation bundles, with the ability to generate (export) a bundle of properties files, import them, as well as perform some automated QA on the files.

For individual projects, it makes use of a l10n.properties file to override configuration, e.g. for the search path used to determine which files should be translated (see example)

Set up

This script needs to know where the code lives. It can make some assumptions (e.g. current directory), but it works best if you set $WORK_DIR first:

export WORK_DIR=/full/path/to/code/root

(Alfresco engineers: our internal Dev Env takes care of that)

Configuration

See here for project specific overrides: https://github.com/davidcognite/alfresco-localisation-tools/wiki/l10n.properties

Commands

Generating bundles:

These commands use the MESSAGE_SEARCH_PATH and EXCLUDED_FILES config vars to whitelist and then filter the list of .properties files to include

l10n files

returns a list of the files (in the default locale) that are eligable for translation.

l10n files <locale>

As above, but returns a list of the files in the specified locale that already exist. If locale is "all", then all locales (inc. default) will be returned.

l10n export <path>

generates a zip file containing all the properties files for each supported language. These zip files are written to path and are named with the locale and the working copy revision number (svn) or current time stamp (git).

l10n install <path>

overlays a directory of properties files from path to $WORK_DIR. Used to install a bundle following translation.

##Checking installed bundles

l10n count

runs a quick count of all the files and strings for each of the supported locales.

l10n check <path>

runs a rudimentary QA script that checks each translation for completeness and technical (but not linguistic) correctness. Reports are written to path. One report per locale is generated, containing:

• strings missing from translated bundle
• files that contain missing strings
• strings in translated bundle but not in default one (redundant strings)
• files containing redundant strings
• duplicated string definitions
• translated strings that match the default locale
• strings with incorrectly escaped unicode characters
• strings with potentially incorrect quoting

It also generates one summary report with counts so you can quickly review what the status of a translation is.

##String Encoding

Alfresco and related modules require properties files to contain only ASCII characters, anytihng outside of that character set must be encoded as a unicode escape sequence. I've included several shortcuts to assist with decoding already escaped strings, or encoding strings that aren't escaped.

In the commands below, encoding is usually UTF8, but supports anything that native2ascii supports.

l10n decode <path> <encoding>

Converts all properties files located at path (recursively) from unicode escaped ASCII to encoding. This is useful when exporting bundles and sending them to a translator.

l10n decode-string <string> <encoding>

Converts the string from unicode escaped ASCII to encoding.

l10n encode <path> <encoding>

Converts all properties files located at path (recursively) to unicode escaped ASCII from encoding. This is useful when installing bundles from translators.

l10n encode-string <string> <encoding>

Converts the string to unicode escaped ASCII from encoding.