lazarus/languages

The <lazarusdir>/languages directory contains all the stuff for
internationalization of the lazarus IDE.

There are a few other directories for the codetools and the lcl. They work
all the same. All language files can easily be updated with the
<lazarusdir>/localize.sh script.

All text and messages used in the IDE (except the special designer units)
should be placed into the unit lazarusidestrconsts.pas. This unit uses a
resourcestring section, so that the compiler will create the
<lazarusdir>/lazarusidestrconsts.rst file.
Since this is a fpc-only format it must be converted with the rstconv program:

cd <lazarusdir>/languages
rstconv -i ../lazarusidestrconsts.rst -o lazaruside.po

This will create the file lazaruside.po, which should be translated in all
required languages to a lazaruside.xx.po file. For the xx see the gettext unit
in the procedure TranslateResourceStrings.

german:           lazaruside.de.po
russian (KOI8-R): lazaruside.ru.po
spanish:          lazaruside.es.po
french:           lazaruside.fr.po


After the translation, the lazaruside.xx.po file is converted to an .mo file
with the msgfmt program:

msgfmt -v -o lazaruside.xx.mo lazaruside.xx.po

where xx is the language id.


(The same for objinspstrconsts.xx.po, codetoolsstrconsts.xx.po, lcl.xx.po)