(docs) Guide for translating UI text with Lingui #21805
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LekoArts
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Feb 28, 2020
| Unlike Markdown documents, UI messages are kept in the same monorepo as the gatsby source. | ||
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| 1. Follow the instructions for [running the Gatsby website](/contributing/blog-and-website-contributions/#making-changes-to-the-website). | ||
| 2. Go to `www/` and run `yarn lingui:add-locale [lang code]` to generate a file for your language at `src/data/locales/[lang-code]/messages.po`. |
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How do we ensure that people use the correct lang code?
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It'll show up in the pull request of the generated po file.
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topic: i18n
type: documentation
AishaBlake
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Made a couple of small style changes. I removed a couple of instances of "we" and also removed the note about future functionality. I can't think of anything else this needs to cover and I appreciate you getting feedback from the translation maintainers proactively.
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Guide for translators to translate UI text generated by Lingui in #21633