diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 3a4dbd048a..9f004c1129 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -431,8 +431,11 @@ fabmanager babel-extract --target superset/translations --output superset/transl ``` You can then translate the strings gathered in files located under -`superset/translation`, where there's one per language. For the translations -to take effect: +`superset/translation`, where there's one per language. You can use [Poedit](https://poedit.net/features) +to translate the `po` file more conveniently. +There are some [tutorials in the wiki](https://wiki.lxde.org/en/Translate_*.po_files_with_Poedit). + +For the translations to take effect: ```bash # In the case of JS translation, we need to convert the PO file into a JSON file, and we need the global download of the npm package po2json. @@ -446,6 +449,8 @@ If you get errors running `po2json`, you might be running the Ubuntu package wit name, rather than the NodeJS package (they have a different format for the arguments). If there is a conflict, you may need to update your `PATH` environment variable or fully qualify the executable path (e.g. `/usr/local/bin/po2json` instead of `po2json`). +If you get a lot of `[null,***]` in `messages.json`, just delete all the `null,`. +For example, `"year":["年"]` is correct while `"year":[null,"年"]`is incorrect. ### Creating a new language dictionary
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