libvips/po/README

translators
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see this page for a howto:

	http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/translator.html

Things like 

	msgid "/File/_Save Image As ..."

are menu items. You only need to translate the last part (following the final
"/"). The underscore character marks the accelerator (the underlined character
in the menu item). So you could put:

	msgstr "Sevy i_mago os ..."

and it would display as "Sevy imago os ...", with the "m" underlined.

tips
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cd vips-8.x
find cplusplus/include libvips/include \
  -name '*deprecated*' -prune -o \
  -name '*.h' \
  -printf '%h\0%d\0%p\n' | \
  sort -t '\0' -n | \
  awk -F '\0' '{print $3}' > po/POTFILES.in
find libvips tools cplusplus \
  -path libvips/deprecated -prune -o \
  -name dummy.c -prune -o \
  -path cplusplus/examples -prune -o \
  \( -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' \) \
  -printf '%h\0%d\0%p\n' | \
  sort -t '\0' -n | \
  awk -F '\0' '{print $3}' >> po/POTFILES.in

cd vips-8.x/po
intltool-update --pot

	make a new vips8.x.pot translation template from the sources

add header

# test translation file
# Copyright (C) 2019
# This file is distributed under the same license as the libvips package.
# John Cupitt <jcupitt@gmail.com>, 2019.
# 
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: vips 8.9.0\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2019-08-06 15:19+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2019-08-06 15:19+0100\n"
"Last-Translator: john <jcupitt@gmail.com>\n"
"Language-Team: \n" 
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=s;\n"

	edits to make vips8.xx.pot into test.po

msgfmt -cv -o /dev/null test.po

	check translation for errors