lazarus/languages

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

All text and messages used in the IDE 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


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.