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@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Basic structure Android - android project iPhone - iOS version src - JS, HTML, CSS and image files +templates - templates with strings to be translated +locale - gettext translation files +bin - helper scripts for translation src Stucture ------------ @@ -35,3 +38,14 @@ js/views - backbone view files js/models - backgone model files jslib - third party javascript libraries and files templates - underscore templates for the pages + +Translation +----------- +We use gettext for translation with a series of templated files that use the Template Toolkit +Perl module. The scripts are based on those used for the FixMyStreet website. In the templates +directory are a set of page templates marked up for translation. These are parsed by the scripts +and a set of strings to be translated are extracted. These strings are then used to generate a +a set of .po files for each language under locales, which in turn generate a set of translated +template files for use in the app. For more details see the translating file. + +The app only supports one language at a time at the moment. |