Adding translations

There are translatable strings from both JS an Python.

We use Crowdin for translations on the project. First, you have to create an account.

After that you’ll be able to reach the crowding pages for the project and interact with translations, ex: - udata crowdin page - udata-front crowdin page

Warning

We only translate strings from the master and maintenance branches of the repository. Do not push languages on any other branch because merging translations is incredibly painful.

Existing languages

The command inv i18n extract all these strings locally. Pushing the changes on any branch will automatically update translatable strings on Crowdin.

Crowdin will submit pull requests on github each time translations are updated.

When pulling new translation in .po files, you should recompile translations with inv i18nc to generate .mo files.

Proposing a new language

To propose a new language you need to submit a pull request:

  • create a branch for the new translations (ex: add-language-fr)
  • in this branch
    • add the language to the LANGUAGES setting
  • submit the pull request

Once it has been accepted, we will also create the new language translation in Crowdin.