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new f480a52 Add doc about translation using poedit (#6600)
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commit f480a52074619500bebb8a05fe14b234e2a26408
Author: Yao Zhou <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 15 02:48:12 2019 +0800
Add doc about translation using poedit (#6600)
* Update CONTRIBUTING.md
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CONTRIBUTING.md | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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@@ -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
