HowToTranslate.md

How to translate 2048 to another language.

First, if you do not have Gettext, get it by entering the following command by terminal

sudo apt-get install gettext

We aim to have the following structure for our directory:

./po/language_name/file.po

So, go to the ./po directory and then create a directory with your language standard name.

for example:

mkdir po/es_AR

The next step is to generate the .po files with the following command (change 'es_AR' by your language standard name):

msginit --input=po/gfx_curses.pot --locale=es_AR --output=po/es_AR/gfx_curses.po
msginit --input=po/gfx_terminal.pot --locale=es_AR --output=po/es_AR/gfx_terminal.po
msginit --input=po/highscore.pot --locale=es_AR --output=po/es_AR/highscore.po

Translation

Now, we can translate the strings:

so, go to ./po/language_name/ and translate the strings in the .po files with a text editor.

for example:

Nwe should create the directory where we'll place the .mo files (change es_AR by your language standard name):

mkdir -p 18n/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES

The last step is to generate the .mo file:

msgfmt --output-file=18n/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/gfx_curses.mo po/es_AR/gfx_curses.po
msgfmt --output-file=18n/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/gfx_terminal.mo po/es_AR/gfx_terminal.po
msgfmt --output-file=18n/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/highscore.mo po/es_AR/highscore.po

And this is it!