
Internationalization and Localization
The source code of ejabberd
supports localization:
all built-in modules support the xml:lang
attribute inside IQ queries,
and the Web Admin supports the Accept-Language
HTTP header.
There are two ways to improve the translation of a language:
Edit the corresponding .po file in ejabberd-po git repository with a gettext-compatible program (Poedit, KBabel, Lokalize, ...). Then submit a Pull Request.
Using the ejabberd-po Weblate online service.
Once the translators have improved the po
files,
you can run make translations
.
With that command, the translatable
strings are extracted from source code to generate the file
ejabberd.pot
. This file is merged with each .po file to produce
updated .po files. Finally those .po files are exported to .msg files,
that have a format easily readable by ejabberd
.