How to add new language?

[azimuth]

I want to add russian language.
1) Download and build sources
2) Create folder "ru" in "po"
3) Copy po/minetest.pot to po/ru/minetest.po
4) Change po/ru/minetest.po :

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# Russian translations for minetest-c55 package.
# Copyright (C) 2011 celeron
# This file is distributed under the same license as the minetest-c55 package.
# Azimuth <elagin.pasha@gmail.com>, 2013.
#
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: minetest\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-01-29 12:32+0400\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: Azimuth <elagin.pasha@gmail.com>\n"
"Language-Team: Russian <>\n"
"Language: ru\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
...
#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:248
msgid "Settings"
msgstr "Настройки"
...
#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:245
msgid "Singleplayer"
msgstr "Одиночная игра"

#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:246
msgid "Multiplayer"
msgstr "Сетевая игра"
...

5) util$ ./updatepo.sh
[da]: updating strings
.................... завершено.
[de]: updating strings
................... завершено.
[fr]: updating strings
.................... завершено.
[it]: updating strings
................... завершено.
[ru]: updating strings
................... завершено.

6) Run and see in main menu english words.

debug.txt

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13:08:46: INFO[main]: locale has been set to:ru_RU.UTF-8

[kaeza]

http://dev.minetest.net/Translation

[azimuth]

http://dev.minetest.net/Translation

I did so.

[PilzAdam]

Have you copiled minetest with gettext? Use

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cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j2

The cmake output should tell something like

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-- GetText enabled; locales found: it;da;fr;de

Also: You dont need to run updatepo.sh, make does this for you.

[azimuth]

Have you copiled minetest with gettext? Use

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cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j2

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minetest$ cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j4
-- *** Will build version 0.4.4-d1 ***
...
-- GetText enabled; locales found: it;fr;ru;da;de
...
mo-update [de]: Creating locale directory.
[ 17%] mo-update [it]: Creating locale directory.
mo-update [fr]: Creating locale directory.
[ 17%] [ 18%] mo-update [ru]: Creating locale directory.
mo-update [da]: Creating locale directory.
Scanning dependencies of target minetestserver
[ 19%] mo-update [de]: Creating mo file.
[ 20%] mo-update [it]: Creating mo file.
Scanning dependencies of target minetest
[ 21%] [ 21%] mo-update [ru]: Creating mo file.
[ 21%] mo-update [fr]: Creating mo file.
mo-update [da]: Creating mo file.
[ 21%] mo update
[ 21%] [ 21%] Built target translations
...

$ bin/minetest
and see english words

[PilzAdam]

I have the same problem. I have everything correctly compiled and the $LANG varible set to de_DE.UTF-8 but I still get english text.

[azimuth]

In int main(int argc, char *argv[]) i find

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init_gettext((porting::path_share+DIR_DELIM+".."+DIR_DELIM+"locale").c_str());

ls -l locale/

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drwxrwxr-x 3 pavel pavel 4096 янв.  29 20:02 da
drwxrwxr-x 3 pavel pavel 4096 янв.  29 20:02 de
drwxrwxr-x 3 pavel pavel 4096 янв.  29 20:02 fr
drwxrwxr-x 3 pavel pavel 4096 янв.  29 20:02 it

folder "ru" don't exist

After

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make

folder "ru" has been created

In int main(int argc, char *argv[]) contains:

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init_gettext((porting::path_share+DIR_DELIM+".."+DIR_DELIM+"locale").c_str());

my porting::path_user = : /home/pavel/dev/minetest/bin/..

i change to

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init_gettext((porting::path_share + DIR_DELIM + "locale").c_str());

and "path" for bindtextdomain = /home/pavel/dev/minetest/bin/../locale

thereafter i change po/ru/minetest.po

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#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:245
msgid "Singleplayer"
msgstr "Одиночная игра" 
.....
#: src/guiMainMenu.cpp:248
msgid "Settings"
msgstr "Nastroyki"

make && run &&
1) Nothing on "Singleplayer" tab.
2) See "Nastroyki" on "Settings" tab.

[sfan5]

I just tried out too, it doesn't work for me too.
$LANG is set correctly and gettext compiled in

[PilzAdam]

Does it actually work for anyone in the latest dev version?

[kaeza]

Does it actually work for anyone in the latest dev version?

I followed your instructions and got Minetest running with Spanish texts, so I believe the same should hold true for other languages.
And yes, it's the (almost) latest version (a few commits behind).
EDIT: IDK if this works for languages that don't use the latin alphabet (like Russian, Japanese, etc).

[PilzAdam]

I found something: strace outputs:

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open("/home/adam/Minetest/minetest/bin/../../locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/minetest.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

but the file is at

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"/home/adam/Minetest/minetest/bin/../locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/minetest.mo"

Copying the locale folder from minetest to the parent directory solves the problem.
But why does Minetest look at the wrong place to find the file?

[azimuth]

I found something: strace outputs:

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open("/home/adam/Minetest/minetest/bin/../../locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/minetest.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

But why does Minetest look at the wrong place to find the file?

Probably because the string

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init_gettext((porting :: path_share + DIR_DELIM + ".." + DIR_DELIM + "locale"). c_str ());

is not true.

If it is replaced by

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init_gettext((porting::path_share + DIR_DELIM + "locale").c_str());

all will be well.

The same line is contained 0.4.3 in and master branch.

[4aiman]

Have you copiled minetest with gettext? Use

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cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j2

did the trick. Well, locales were recognized, russian one selected and then... then I got empty lines instead of text. Do I need to use ttf patch to make cyrillic chars show? Or should I have some ttf file in the particular folder (then - which one?)?

[PilzAdam]

Have you copiled minetest with gettext? Use

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cmake . -DENABLE_GETTEXT=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 && make -j2

did the trick. Well, locales were recognized, russian one selected and then... then I got empty lines instead of text. Do I need to use ttf patch to make cyrillic chars show? Or should I have some ttf file in the particular folder (then - which one?)?

You need to compile minetest with ttf support (i.e. -DENABLE_FREETYPE=1) and use a font that contains the charachters.

[4aiman]

Thanks, PilzAdam! Will try that.

Edit: Thanks again!