Translating the collection into your language
The icestudio collections are prepared to be translated into any languajes. Both, the blocks and the examples show their texts in the current selected languaje
The text are changed interactively when another languajes is selected, as long as there is a translation available
All the translations are located in the locale folder. The file translation.js contains all the English texts to be translated to the target languaje. For every languaje there exist another folder with the languaje localization. For example, the locale for Spanish languaje in Spain es es_ES. Inside that folder is located the .po file which contains the texts in English and their translations into Spanish
The tools needed for translating are:
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Icm: Icestudio Collection Manager. This tools is used for generating a new
translation.jsfile with the English texts extracted from the blocks and examples of the collection. It also allow us to update the Readme file with the latest blocks, examples and the percentage of translation to the different languajes
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poedit: Editor for translating the English texts and generating a new
.pofile
You can install Poedit directly from its main page, for Linux, Mac and Windows
It is also available in the main Linux distributions. For example if you are running Ubuntu 20.04, you can install it with the following command:
sudo apt install poedit
You need first to install python 3. Then you install icm with this command:
pip install icm
If you are running Ubuntu 20.04 its better to install it with this command:
sudo pip3 install -U icm
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