Internationalisation

If you want to contribute a translation the following hints may be of help to you.

Step 1:

If you want to update an existing translation, skip to step 2.

If you want to do a new translation, start with creating an empty translation file:

touch share/locale/muse_fr.ts

Step 2:

Populate your .ts file with the newest strings

        mkdir build
        cd build
        cmake -DUPDATE_TRANSLATIONS=ON ..
        make translations
        cmake -DUPDATE_TRANSLATIONS=OFF ..
        cd ..

Your file share/locale/muse_fr.ts is now ready for translation. It is recommended that you copy this file to some other place and and work on the copy.

Step 3:

Edit "muse_fr.ts" manually or use the QtLinguist tool:

linguist muse_fr.ts

Step 4:

Save the edited file "muse_fr.ts" from linguist and start File->Release. This generates the file "muse_fr.qm". Copy this file into your muse installation folder, /share/muse-4.0/locale/

or

Copy your edited "muse_fr.ts" into share/locale in the source tree and rebuild/install muse:

        cd build
        cmake -DUPDATE_TRANSLATIONS=OFF ..
        make
        sudo make install

Step 5:

Test: If your system locale is set to the same language as your translation, simply start MusE:

muse4

Otherwise, start MusE with the desired locale using the -l flag

muse4 -l fr