[ckan-dev] howto do a custom translation for a external plugin

Wed Mar 1 16:26:07 UTC 2017

Hi Armin,

one extension can provide/override the translations for another extension 
without problems, we're doing that quite a bit.

As far as I know, ckanext-spatial does mark its strings as translatable 
but isn't really set up for i18n otherwise. In particular, there's no 
".pot" file containing the translatable strings. That's probably something 
that should be fixed in ckanext-spatial itself.

However, you can still translate strings of ckanext-spatial in your own 
extension:

1. Make sure that your extension is set up correctly for i18n (see 
http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/extensions/translating-extensions.html)

2. Generate the ".pot" and ".po" files for your extension

3. Locate the strings in ckanext-spatial that you want to translate (e.g. 
"Clear"), and add them to your ".po" file manually. You will need to add 
the PO-syntax, but it's not hard:

        msgid "Clear"
        msgstr "Your translation"

4. Run "python setup.py compile_catalog" for your extension to compile the 
".mo" files

5. Restart CKAN

I hope that helps, report back if it doesn't :)

Regards
Florian

"ckan-dev" <ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org> schrieb am 01.03.2017 
16:12:11:

> Von: Armin Retterath <armin.retterath at gmail.com>
> An: CKAN Development Discussions <ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org>, 
> Datum: 01.03.2017 16:12
> Betreff: [ckan-dev] howto do a custom translation for a external plugin
> Gesendet von: "ckan-dev" <ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org>
> 
> hi together,

> is there a simple way to do a custom translation for an external plugin?
> i have an own plugin and did the translation via
> python setup.py extract_messages
> ...
> successfully

> now i enabled ckanext-spatial and adopted my own 
> ckanext/transparencyderp/templates/package/search.html

> to show the spatial filter window. but the translation of the 
> strings like 'Clear' is not done. i may add own .po files to the 
> ckanext-spatial plugin, but in the setup.py of ckanext-spatial 
> [babel] is not referenced. 
> do i have to copy all needed templates of ckanext-spatial to my 
repository? 

> thanx in advance and best regards 

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