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Signed-off-by: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>

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+Translating
+===========
+
+This document describes how to create and maintain aurweb translations. It was
+originally derived from
+<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/aurweb_Translation>.
+
+
+Creating a New Translation
+--------------------------
+
+Before starting, please sign up for a Transifex account and request the
+addition of a new translation team for the aurweb project. Also, please do not
+translate if you are unwilling to maintain or find someone to maintain the
+translation. This is due to the fact that aurweb is a rapidly evolving project
+and there are constantly new strings to be translated. If the translations get
+too out of sync with the released versions, there will be too many untranslated
+strings for the translation to be usable, and it may have to be disabled.
+
+
+1. Check out the aurweb source using git:
+
+  $ git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/aurweb.git aurweb-git
+
+
+2. Go into the 'po/' directory in the aurweb source, and run +msginit(1)+ to
+   create an initial translation file from our translation catalog:
+
+  $ cd aurweb-git
+  $ git checkout master
+  $ git pull
+  $ cd po
+  $ msginit -l <locale> -o <locale>.po -i aur.pot
+
+
+3. Use some editor or a translation helper like poedit to add translations:
+
+  $ poedit <locale>.po
+
+
+4. If you have a working aurweb setup, add a line for the new translation in
+   'web/lib/translator.inc.php.
+
+
+5. Upload the newly created '.po' file to Tranisfex. If you don't like the web
+   interface you can also use transifex-client to do that (see below).
+
+
+Updating an Existing Translation
+--------------------------------
+
+1. Download current translation files from Transifex. You can also do this
+   using transifex-client which is avaliable through the AUR:
+
+  $ tx pull -a
+
+
+2. Update the existing translation file using an editor or a tool like poedit:
+
+  $ poedit po/<locale>.po
+
+
+3. Push the updated translation file back to Transifex. Using transifex-client,
+   this works as follows:
+
+  $ tx push -r aur.pot -t -l <locale>
+
+
+/////
+vim:set ts=4 sw=4 syntax=asciidoc noet spell spelllang=en_us:
+/////