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==Add a new language pack to Launchpad==
If you are in charge of the official language packs, you may receive a language pack tar ball from a translator. You may be asked to add the tar ball into the [https://translations.launchpad.net/mahara-lang Mahara translation project] on Launchpad. This tar ball contains the directory named like 'xy.utf8' which has translated strings for a specific Mahara branch.

Here are the instructions

===Checkout the Mahara code and Mahara lang script===

You need to checkout the Mahara branch (1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and master) which is compatible to the lang pack. Please see the [[Developer_Area/Developer_Environment||Set up a development environment page]] for more details.

 cd ~
 mkdir code
 cd code
 git clone git://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara.git
 cd ~/code/mahara
 git checkout -t origin/<Mahara-branch_STABLE>

You also need to checkout the Mahara lang scripts in the [http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara-scripts mahara-scripts] repository

===Install the language pack tar ball===

===Generate a .po file===

===Update the Translator's info in the .po file===

 "Last-Translator: Son Nguyen <son.nguyen@catalyst.net.nz>\n"
 "Language-Team: Launchpad Vietnamese Translators\n"

If you don't include an email address on this line, you (as the uploader) will be credited as the translator after it's uploaded to Launchpad.

===Get the last updated .pot template from launchpad===

You need one '''mahara.pot''' for each branch.  You can find them on these bzr branches:

* http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mahara-lang/mahara-lang/master/files/head:/mahara/
* http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mahara-lang/mahara-lang/1.5_STABLE/files/head:/mahara/
* http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mahara-lang/mahara-lang/1.4_STABLE/files/head:/mahara/
* http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mahara-lang/mahara-lang/1.3_STABLE/files/head:/mahara/