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+layout: page
+title: Adding new strings to FixMyStreet
+---
+
+# Adding new strings
+
+<p class="lead">Technical details for people who wish to add new strings for
+translation.</p>
+
+You will need to install the Locale::Maketext::Extract package in order to
+parse strings out of templates:
+
+    $ cpanm -l local-carton Locale::Maketext::Extract
+
+A new clean `.po` file, containing all the strings marked for translation in
+the code and templates, can be created by running the `bin/gettext-extract`
+script.
+
+    export PERL5LIB="local-carton/lib/perl5:local/lib/perl5"
+    export PATH="local-carton/bin:$PATH"
+    bin/gettext-extract
+
+To merge in new strings with the existing translations:
+
+    bin/gettext-merge
+
+To compile translations into `.mo` files:
+
+    commonlib/bin/gettext-makemo
+
+You may find it helpful to add an alias to your .gitconfig:
+
+    [alias]
+        podiff = "!f() { git diff --color $@ | grep -v '^ ' | grep -v @@ | grep -v '#:' | less -FRSX; }; f"
+
+Then `git podiff locale` will show you actual changes, rather than all the
+changes to comments and line numbers.