Poedit application: Localization of embedded portal user interface

Application interface description

Introduction

The current description contains a Poedit application overview including a description of the working environment, principals that should be applied within localization of a project, application interface description, main functions, and events.

Application installation

First of all, it is required to download the application from the official website http://www.poedit.net/download.php. After installation, open File/Preferences in Menu and enter your name & e-mail. In Editor tab unselect the option Automatically compile .mo file on save . Click ОК.

Translation interface of PO files

Application interface contains functions that can be needed both for language files generation from a particular/selected project and for further translation them into other languages. All generated language files have the extension *.po (for example ru.po ), and could be translated in a convenient form into other languages by a team of translators using this application. Those localization options can be integrated fast and easily in the project.

The below description refers to an application interface for use by a team of translators.

There are the next elements of application on the picture:

1. text which should be translated
2. text which was translated automatically and therefore should be checked. If it is correct, then it is required to confirm it, by de-selecting Fuzzy in Toolbar, or correct the text manually
3. text, which should be translated
4. translation
5. comment to the original text (often used when the text is only a part of a more extensive sentence)
6. text has a comment
7. text was translated or corrected by you and considered as correct

  Example:

How to add a new localization

1. Download and untar portal-dev-*.tgz from STB release http://soft.infomir.com
2. Using Poedit application find, copy and edit PO files of localization (they are located in folders lang in the developer version of portal - see item 1).

./public/portal/master_settings/lang
./public/portal/lang
./public/app/dlman/lang
./public/app/ibman/lang
./public/app/pvr/lang
./public/app/help/lang
./system/settings/lang
./system/updater/lang
./system/pages/loader/lang

3. In /portal/system/tools.js in function

getCurrentLanguage ( langList )

add new localization in the data array

 ['en', 'ru', 'uk', 'de', 'es', 'bg']

4. Run script portal/tools/build.gettext.sh or build.gettext.cmd (for Windows). Before running the script, you need to run npm install from portal/tools/ , nodejs and npm packages should be pre-installed.

Compiling of embedded portal

5. In rootfs in /etc/languages_utf8.txt , add new localization.

How to add localization for the virtual keyboard

a. Edit files in system/keyboard/js/
b. /system/keyboard/js/boards.js - language+layout(buttons)

And go to step 4.