It'd be good to put this info on the developer site somewhere.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is mostly correct.  generated_resources.grd is not generated from
> another file.  It is the source file that we manually edit to add
> strings.  The step that's missing is that we send generated_resources.grd
> to our translators and they provide us with the localized xtb files (some
> amount of hand waving here).  So yes, the xtb files are generated outside
> the visual studio solution.
>
> If you're adding a feature to chromium to be included in the official
> build, you don't have to worry about providing translations other than
> English in generated_resources.grd.  We'll handle the translation to all
> other languages.
>
> If you just want this feature for your own build of chromium, you should
> be able to manually edit the xtb file to create the translation.  The
> traslationid is just a md5 hash of the string (see
> /src/tools/grit/external/FP.py).
>
> HTH,
> tony
>
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Wei Hu wrote:
>
>> I was going to add a new menu item in the context menu, and would like
>> to be able to display localized strings instead of a fixed string. In
>> particular, I'm going to support both en-US and zh-CN.
>>
>> The steps to add a resource string seem to be:
>>
>> 1. Add an XML stanza in chrome\app\generated_resources.grd.
>> The message string can be fixed or parameterized with $1, $2, etc.
>> Changes in generated_resources.grd will be reflected in
>> generated_resources.h and generated_resources_en-US.rc.
>>
>> 2. Add the translation of the string in every locale, e.g.,
>> generated_resources_zh-CN.xtb
>> If we don't perform this step, generated_resources_zh-CN.rc gets the
>> untranslated string.
>>
>> 3. When you need to display the string, call l10n_util::GetString()
>> for fixed strings,
>> or GetStringF() for parameterized strings.
>>
>> The problem is, generated_resources.grd and generated_resources_zh-
>> CN.xtb also seem to be generated from other files. But I couldn't find
>> the sources of these files. Did Google not release them in the SVN
>> repository, or did I miss something? Manually editing the files didn't
>> achieve what I wanted.
>> >
>
> >
>

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