Developer Area/Language Packs/Launchpad New Language Packs

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 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 which is

Install the language pack tar ball

Generate a .po file

Update the Translator's info in the .po file

"Last-Translator: Son Nguyen <[email protected]>\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: