[Feature Request]: How to test a new translation (Italian)

[bovirus]

Describe your idea in details

@eranif

Feature request description

Add in home page info ho to etst a new translation.

I already prepared a codelite.po/.mop file

I need some confirm how to add in Codelite folder and how to enable the new translation

I created a folder share\local\it\LC_MESSAGES

I copiied in this fodler the file

codelite.po
codelite.mo

I ran CodeLite but I'm not able to setup Italian interface.

I beleiev that a smart guide in home page can be useful.

Thanks.

[Jarod42]

For testing, once you have generated codelite.mo for your language,
put codelite.mo in share\locale\it\LC_MESSAGES\.

Then in Codelite, in Settings.../Preference/Misc, (Alt+O then Misc tabulation)

• change Locale to it_IT: italian (Italy)
• check 'Enable localization'

Restart Codelite.

If you build .mo from outdated .pot/.po, you risk to see missing translations.

There is a readme in https://github.com/eranif/codelite/tree/master/translations to explain how to add new language in CodeLite.
Only .po need to be versionned.

[bovirus]

@Jarod42

Thanks for the expnation

I already done all steps in UI settings to enable language but is seems that didn't work.

Italian language file

UI settings

I already restart Codelite but the menu are always in English.

About how to tranmslate the info is in language folders.

If someone have no idea how to translate the better way for me is to post this info in the home of Github repository.

Because otherwise he didn't never find this info because didn't know where file are located.

[Jarod42]

Can you provide .po?

[bovirus]

@Jarod42

Now it works.
When I change from English to Italian didn't work (remain in English).
For a try I changed from English to French and it worked in French.
Then I changed from French to Italian and not it works in Italian.