How to add new language?

[azimuth]

I want to add russian language.
1) Download and build sources
2) Create folder "ru" in "po"
3) Copy po/minetest.pot to po/ru/minetest.po
4) Change po/ru/minetest.po :

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# Russian translations for minetest-c55 package.
# Copyright (C) 2011 celeron
# This file is distributed under the same license as the minetest-c55 package.
# Azimuth <elagin.pasha@gmail.com>, 2013.
#
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: minetest\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-01-29 12:32+0400\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: Azimuth <elagin.pasha@gmail.com>\n"
"Language-Team: Russian <>\n"
"Language: ru\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
...
#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:248
msgid "Settings"
msgstr "Настройки"
...
#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:245
msgid "Singleplayer"
msgstr "Одиночная игра"

#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:246
msgid "Multiplayer"
msgstr "Сетевая игра"
...


5) util$ ./updatepo.sh
[da]: updating strings
.................... завершено.
[de]: updating strings
................... завершено.
[fr]: updating strings
.................... завершено.
[it]: updating strings
................... завершено.
[ru]: updating strings
................... завершено.

6) Run and see in main menu english words.

debug.txt

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13:08:46: INFO[main]: locale has been set to:ru_RU.UTF-8


[kaeza]

http://dev.minetest.net/Translation

[azimuth]

http://dev.minetest.net/Translation

I did so.

[PilzAdam]

Have you copiled minetest with gettext? Use

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cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j2

The cmake output should tell something like

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-- GetText enabled; locales found: it;da;fr;de

Also: You dont need to run updatepo.sh, make does this for you.

[azimuth]

Have you copiled minetest with gettext? Use

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j2

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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minetest$ cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j4
-- *** Will build version 0.4.4-d1 ***
...
-- GetText enabled; locales found: it;fr;ru;da;de
...
mo-update [de]: Creating locale directory.
[ 17%] mo-update [it]: Creating locale directory.
mo-update [fr]: Creating locale directory.
[ 17%] [ 18%] mo-update [ru]: Creating locale directory.
mo-update [da]: Creating locale directory.
Scanning dependencies of target minetestserver
[ 19%] mo-update [de]: Creating mo file.
[ 20%] mo-update [it]: Creating mo file.
Scanning dependencies of target minetest
[ 21%] [ 21%] mo-update [ru]: Creating mo file.
[ 21%] mo-update [fr]: Creating mo file.
mo-update [da]: Creating mo file.
[ 21%] mo update
[ 21%] [ 21%] Built target translations
...


$ bin/minetest
and see english words

[PilzAdam]

I have the same problem. I have everything correctly compiled and the $LANG varible set to de_DE.UTF-8 but I still get english text.

[azimuth]

In int main(int argc, char *argv[]) i find

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init_gettext((porting::path_share+DIR_DELIM+".."+DIR_DELIM+"locale").c_str());


ls -l locale/

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drwxrwxr-x 3 pavel pavel 4096 янв.  29 20:02 da
drwxrwxr-x 3 pavel pavel 4096 янв.  29 20:02 de
drwxrwxr-x 3 pavel pavel 4096 янв.  29 20:02 fr
drwxrwxr-x 3 pavel pavel 4096 янв.  29 20:02 it


folder "ru" don't exist

After

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make

folder "ru" has been created

In int main(int argc, char *argv[]) contains:

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init_gettext((porting::path_share+DIR_DELIM+".."+DIR_DELIM+"locale").c_str());

my porting::path_user = : /home/pavel/dev/minetest/bin/..

i change to

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init_gettext((porting::path_share + DIR_DELIM + "locale").c_str());


and "path" for bindtextdomain = /home/pavel/dev/minetest/bin/../locale

thereafter i change po/ru/minetest.po

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#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:245
msgid "Singleplayer"
msgstr "Одиночная игра"
.....
#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:248
msgid "Settings"
msgstr "Nastroyki"


make && run &&
1) Nothing on "Singleplayer" tab.
2) See "Nastroyki" on "Settings" tab.

[sfan5]

I just tried out too, it doesn't work for me too.
$LANG is set correctly and gettext compiled in

[PilzAdam]

Does it actually work for anyone in the latest dev version?

[kaeza]

Does it actually work for anyone in the latest dev version?

I followed your instructions and got Minetest running with Spanish texts, so I believe the same should hold true for other languages.
And yes, it's the (almost) latest version (a few commits behind).
EDIT: IDK if this works for languages that don't use the latin alphabet (like Russian, Japanese, etc).

[PilzAdam]

I found something: strace outputs:

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open("/home/adam/Minetest/minetest/bin/../../locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/minetest.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

but the file is at

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"/home/adam/Minetest/minetest/bin/../locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/minetest.mo"

Copying the locale folder from minetest to the parent directory solves the problem.
But why does Minetest look at the wrong place to find the file?

[azimuth]

I found something: strace outputs:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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open("/home/adam/Minetest/minetest/bin/../../locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/minetest.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

But why does Minetest look at the wrong place to find the file?

Probably because the string

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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init_gettext((porting :: path_share + DIR_DELIM + ".." + DIR_DELIM + "locale"). c_str ());

is not true.

If it is replaced by

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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init_gettext((porting::path_share + DIR_DELIM + "locale").c_str());

all will be well.

The same line is contained 0.4.3 in and master branch.

[4aiman]

Have you copiled minetest with gettext? Use

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j2

did the trick. Well, locales were recognized, russian one selected and then... then I got empty lines instead of text. Do I need to use ttf patch to make cyrillic chars show? Or should I have some ttf file in the particular folder (then - which one?)?

[PilzAdam]

Have you copiled minetest with gettext? Use

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j2

did the trick. Well, locales were recognized, russian one selected and then... then I got empty lines instead of text. Do I need to use ttf patch to make cyrillic chars show? Or should I have some ttf file in the particular folder (then - which one?)?

You need to compile minetest with ttf support (i.e. -DENABLE_FREETYPE=1) and use a font that contains the charachters.

[4aiman]

Thanks, PilzAdam! Will try that.

Edit: Thanks again!