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  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="index" group="translate"/>

    <link type="next" xref="dev-translate-setup"/>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2013-06-19" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Michael Hill</name>

      <email its:translate="no">mdhillca@gmail.com</email>

      <years>2013</years>

    </credit>

    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="cc-by-sa-3-0.xml"/>

    <desc>Localization for user-visible application content.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Translations</title>

  <links type="series" style="floatend">

    <title>Set up translations</title>

  </links>

  
You can make your application translatable into other languages using

  <app href="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/intltool/">intltool</app>

  and

  <app href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html">gettext</app>.

  
<app>gettext</app> is the framework for extracting strings from a source

  file. <app>intltool</app> extracts translatable strings from other files,

  such as desktop files and UI files, then merges them back into the XML and

  desktop files with the strings from the source code.

  
You should use ngettext for translation of strings with

  plurals.

  
For more information about translating GNOME projects, see the GNOME

  <link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines">Translation

  Project</link>.

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