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Doc updates for i18n. * po/po-readme: po/README: Update directions for l10n contributors
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https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/
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The two character language translation codes are defined by ISO_639-1, as
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stated in the gettext(1) full manual, appendix A.1, Usual Language Codes.
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Contributing to an existing translation
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As a contributor for a language XX, you should first check TEAMS file in
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this directory to see whether a dedicated repository for your language XX
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exists. Fork the dedicated repository and start to work if it exists.
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Sometime, contributors may find that the translations of their Git
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distributions are quite different with the translations of the
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corresponding version from Git official. This is because some Git
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distributions (such as from Ubuntu, etc.) have their own l10n workflow.
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For this case, wrong translations should be reported and fixed through
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their workflows.
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Creating a new language translation
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If you are the first contributor for the language XX, please fork this
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repository, prepare and/or update the translated message file po/XX.po
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(described later), and ask the l10n coordinator to pull your work.
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language, so that the l10n coordinator only needs to interact with one
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Translation Process Flow
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The overall data-flow looks like this:
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