Zim - A Desktop Wiki


Translations


To contribute to translations online please go to https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/zim/master/. Here you can collaborate with others to translate zim into your native language.


If you rather use offline tools like poedit you can either check out the source repository for zim (see Contribute) and submit changes as a pull request.


Testing translations

Zim using the GNU gettext tool chain for translations. The source package contains a "zim.pot" file which is the template. The directory "po/" contains translations, which are named "po/language.po" or "po/language_COUNTRY.po" where "language" and "COUNTRY" are the respective language and country codes for the locale.


To compile a new translation run:


$ ./setup.py build_trans

This will compile .mo files for all translations and put them in the directory "locale".
Now run zim from the source directory using:


$ LANGUAGE=language_COUNTRY ./zim.py

or:


$ LANG=language_COUNTRY ./zim.py