Nmap Development: Internationalization in Zenmap

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

Hi,

I renamed and rearranged some files to make internationalization work in
Zenmap. It had been broken for a long time.

The only translation available is a partial one into Brazilian
Portuguese, inherited from Umit. Here is a screenshot of what it looks
like: http://www.bamsoftware.com/wiki/uploads/Nmap/zenmap-pt_BR.png.

Seeing the translation for yourself is easy: just run
        LANG=pt_BR zenmap

The translation is incomplete because many of the strings in the
application have changed since 2006 when the translation was made.

It would be great to have translations for other languages. Software
translation is a complex subject, but the basic files to get started are
in the zenmap/share/zenmap/locale directory. zenmap.pot contains all the
translatable strings in the program. Other .po files have translations
into a single language. The .mo files deeper in the hierarchy are the
translations in binary form for use by the program. There's a
description of the translation process starting at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Creating.

David Fifield

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