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authorGeorg Bauer <gb@hugo.westfalen.de>2005-10-18 13:06:42 +0000
committerGeorg Bauer <gb@hugo.westfalen.de>2005-10-18 13:06:42 +0000
commitf77dd9f81f30927a327fcc32c6220831d2a51a50 (patch)
tree71f21193dd71a7833ce1e1e19389c6c9bf148400 /docs
parentf99782e48eafbda4a25e1b2d7aeda59260e9e02b (diff)
i18n: added an empty translation file for language "en" as a startingpoint for translators
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/i18n@934 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -277,6 +277,11 @@ the charset definition in the file (it's in the Content-Type: line).
The language code for storage is in locale format - so it is pt_BR for
Brazilian or de_AT for Austrian German.
+If you don't have the gettext utilities installed, make-messages.py will create
+empty files. If that is the case, either install the gettext utilities, or
+just copy the conf/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po and start with that - it's just
+an empty translation file.
+
Every message in the message file is of the same format. One line is the msgid.
This is the actual string in the source - you don't change it. The other line
is msgstr - this is the translation. It starts out empty. You change it.