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A python package to easily translate po and pot files in any language supported by Google Translate.

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potranslator is a package to easily translate po and pot files generated by Sphinx or other tools in any language supported by Google Translate.

potranslator auto-detects the language in the original pot files and auto-translates the pot files into the supplied target languages.

The Command Line Interface of potranslator and its documentation are based on sphinx-intl.

Optional: supports the Transifex collaborative service to upload the auto-generated translations to transifex for collaborative corrections of the translations.

Supported Languages

  • Afrikaans af

  • Albanian sq

  • Amharic am

  • Arabic ar

  • Armenian hy

  • Azeerbaijani az

  • Basque eu

  • Belarusian be

  • Bengali bn

  • Bosnian bs

  • Bulgarian bg

  • Catalan ca

  • Cebuano ceb (ISO-639-2)

  • Chinese (Simplified) zh-CN (BCP-47)

  • Chinese (Traditional) zh-TW (BCP-47)

  • Corsican co

  • Croatian hr

  • Czech cs

  • Danish da

  • Dutch nl

  • English en

  • Esperanto eo

  • Estonian et

  • Finnish fi

  • French fr

  • Frisian fy

  • Galician gl

  • Georgian ka

  • German de

  • Greek el

  • Gujarati gu

  • Haitian Creole ht

  • Hausa ha

  • Hawaiian haw (ISO-639-2)

  • Hebrew iw

  • Hindi hi

  • Hmong hmn (ISO-639-2)

  • Hungarian hu

  • Icelandic is

  • Igbo ig

  • Indonesian id

  • Irish ga

  • Italian it

  • Japanese ja

  • Javanese jw

  • Kannada kn

  • Kazakh kk

  • Khmer km

  • Korean ko

  • Kurdish ku

  • Kyrgyz ky

  • Lao lo

  • Latin la

  • Latvian lv

  • Lithuanian lt

  • Luxembourgish lb

  • Macedonian mk

  • Malagasy mg

  • Malay ms

  • Malayalam ml

  • Maltese mt

  • Maori mi

  • Marathi mr

  • Mongolian mn

  • Myanmar (Burmese) my

  • Nepali ne

  • Norwegian no

  • Nyanja (Chichewa) ny

  • Pashto ps

  • Persian fa

  • Polish pl

  • Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pt

  • Punjabi pa

  • Romanian ro

  • Russian ru

  • Samoan sm

  • Scots Gaelic gd

  • Serbian sr

  • Sesotho st

  • Shona sn

  • Sindhi sd

  • Sinhala (Sinhalese) si

  • Slovak sk

  • Slovenian sl

  • Somali so

  • Spanish es

  • Sundanese su

  • Swahili sw

  • Swedish sv

  • Tagalog (Filipino) tl

  • Tajik tg

  • Tamil ta

  • Telugu te

  • Thai th

  • Turkish tr

  • Ukrainian uk

  • Urdu ur

  • Uzbek uz

  • Vietnamese vi

  • Welsh cy

  • Xhosa xh

  • Yiddish yi

  • Yoruba yo

  • Zulu zu

Quick Start for auto-translation with potranslator

This section describes how to translate documents generated by Sphinx with the potranslator command.

  1. Create your document(s) by using Sphinx:

    $ sphinx-build -b html /path/to/docs path/to/docs/_build
  2. Optionally add the settings to your conf.py if you have one:

    locale_dirs = ['locale/']   #path is an example but this is the recommended path.
    gettext_compact = False     #optional.

    locale_dirs is required and gettext_compact is optional.

  3. Extract the document’s translatable messages into pot files (make sure you are in the folder containing make.bat and Makefile if you are on windows):

    $ make gettext
  4. Translate/Update your documents in German and Japanese:

    $ potranslator update -p _build/gettext -l de -l ja

    Done. You got these directories that contain po files with auto-translated entries:

    ./locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/
    ./locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/
  5. Translate/Update your documents in Japanese, build the compiled mo files and generate the translated html documents:

    Command line (for Unix systems):

    $ potranslator build
    $ make -e SPHINXOPTS="-D language='ja'" html

    Command line (for Windows cmd.exe):

    > set SPHINXOPTS=-D language=de
    > potranslator build
    > .\make.bat html

    Command line (for PowerShell):

    > Set-Item env:SPHINXOPTS "-D language=de"
    > potranslator build
    > .\make.bat html

That’s all!

Basic Features

  • Translate from pot files or update existing po files with auto-generated translation.

  • Build mo files from translated po or pot files.

Requirements for the basic features

Optional features

These features need the transifex-client library.

  • create a .transifexrc file from an environment variable, without interactive input.

  • create a .tx/config file without interactive input.

  • update a .tx/config file from locale/pot files automatically.

  • build mo files from po files in the locale directory.

You need to use the tx command to use the following features:

  • tx push -s : push pot (translation catalogs) to transifex.

  • tx pull -l ja : pull po (translated catalogs) from transifex.

Requirements for the optional features

Installation

It is strongly recommended to use virtualenv for this procedure:

$ pip install potranslator

If you want to use the Optional Features, you need install this additional library:

$ pip install potranslator[transifex]

Commands, options, environment variables

Commands

Type potranslator without arguments to show the help instructions.

Setup environment variables

All command-line options can be set with environment variables using the format POTRANSLATOR_<UPPER_LONG_NAME> .

Dashes (-) have to replaced with underscores (_).

For example, to set the target languages:

$ export POTRANSLATOR_LANGUAGE=de,ja

On the Windows command line:

> set POTRANSLATOR_LANGUAGE=de,ja

This is the same as passing the option to potranslator directly:

$ potranslator <command> --language=de --language=ja

Setup sphinx conf.py

Add the following settings to your sphinx document’s conf.py if it exists:

locale_dirs = ['locale/']   #for example
gettext_compact = False     #optional

Setup Makefile / make.bat

make gettext will generate pot files into the _build/gettext directory, however pot files can be generated in the locale/pot directory if convenient.

You can do that by replacing _build/gettext with locale/pot in your Makefile and/or make.bat that was generated by sphinx-quickstart.

License

Licensed under the BSD license. See the LICENSE file for specific terms.

Original

The Command Line Interface and the transifex integration of potranslator are adapted from sphinx-intl.

CHANGES

See: https://github.com/SekouD/potranslator/blob/master/HISTORY.rst

History

1.1.0 (2018-07-08)

  • Now uses importlib_ressources for faster startup from CLI.

  • Updated the command line usability.

  • Added Type Annotation compliant with PEP 561.

  • Updated Documentation.

1.0.5 (2018-07-06)

  • Updated Documentation.

  • Translated the documentation in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.

  • More detailed updates to the po files meta-data.

1.0.0 (2018-07-05)

  • First release candidate.

  • Added Command Line Interface.

0.1.0 (2018-06-27)

  • First release on PyPI.

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