TranslatorGuideLinux – HoverRace

Translators Guide (Linux)

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  1. Translators Guide (Linux)
    1. Translation editing
    2. Enabling locale support for testing
      1. Debian
      2. Ubuntu

Translation editing

The .po files are in the "po" subdirectory. Although the .po files are text files, we highly recommend you use a catalog editing app to edit the files to make sure that the metadata is updated.

Linux .po editors:

Enabling locale support for testing

On some Linux distros, you will need to explicitly enable a locale for it to work.

Debian

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Ubuntu

To enable a single locale, first check /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED to find what variants are supported. Then, use the locale-gen utility to enable all of the variants. For example, to enable Dutch: 

sudo locale-gen nl_BE.UTF-8 nl_BE nl_BE@euro nl_NL.UTF-8 nl_NL nl_NL@euro

To enable all locales (warning: this will take a while, but you only need to do it once!): 

sudo cp /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local.old
sudo cp /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --force locales