= Creating translations for init scripts
Marcus Habermehl <bmh1980de@yahoo.de>

== Preparing the source

To make a script translatable you must first add these two lines to the rc script.

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TEXTDOMAIN=my_service
TEXTDOMAINDIR=/lib/initscripts/messages
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To mark a string as translatable in bash you must prefix the string with $.

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echo $"This is a translatable string."
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== Creating the pot file

After this you must create the pot file.

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$ bash --dump-po-strings rc.my_service | xgettext -L PO -o rc.my_service.pot -
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== Creating a po file

In the next step you create the po file.

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$ msginit -l hu_HU
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Now you can edit the po file with any editor.

== Creating the mo files

To create and install the mo files, you must add the po files to the source()
array and use the `Frcd2` macro in build().