Check state of translation

First pull from Git – see Git cheat sheet, but DO NOT rebase unless you are sure to master the translation state checking and updating system – then cd into Documentation/ (or at top of the source tree, replace make with make -C Documentation) and run

make ISOLANG=MY_LANGUAGE check-translation

This presents a diff of the original files since the most recent revision of the translation and prints it to terminal output. Usually you’ll want to pass this output to a terminal pager like less in order to scroll the diff up and down:

make ISOLANG=MY_LANGUAGE check-translation | less -R

To check a single file, cd into Documentation/ and run

make TRANSLATION_FILES=MY_LANGUAGE/manual/foo.itely check-translation

In case this file has been renamed since you last updated the translation, you should specify both old and new file names, e.g. TRANSLATION_FILES=MY_LANGUAGE/{manual,user}/foo.itely.

To see only which files need to be updated, do

make ISOLANG=MY_LANGUAGE check-translation | grep -n 'diff --git'

The -n option of grep will print the line number of each occurrence, which can be used to have an idea of the length of each diff and the amount of work required.

To avoid printing terminal colors control characters, which is often desirable when you redirect output to a file, run

make ISOLANG=MY_LANGUAGE NO_COLOR=1 check-translation

You can see the diffs generated by the commands above as changes that you should make in your language to the existing translation, in order to make your translation up to date.

See also

Maintaining without updating translations.

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