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diff --git a/development/intltool/README b/development/intltool/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..73a23d9ef4 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/intltool/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The intltool collection can be used to: + +-Extract translatable strings from various source files (.xml.in, + .glade, .desktop.in, .server.in, .oaf.in). +-Collect the extracted strings together with messages from + traditional source files (.c, .h) in po/$(PACKAGE).pot. +-Merge back the translations from .po files into .xml, .desktop and + .oaf files. This merge step will happen at build resp. installation + time. + +The intltool package has a script, intltoolize, which copies the various +scripts and does the other magic to your module. So users building +from tarballs don't need intltool, only folks building from cvs. +(This is modelled on gettextize.) |