Currently installed locales

locale	translation status	author	team
en_US	100% (builtin)
fr_FR	67.31%	Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>	français <fr@li.org.example>
es_ES	94.23%	Luis Rivas Vañó <luinix@gmail.com>	español <es@li.org>
it_IT	96.15%	David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>	Italian <it@li.org>
ar_EG	53.85%	Amr Helmy <amrhelmy2004@gmx.com>	Arabic <ar@li.org>
pt_BR	100%	Nelson A. de Oliveira <naoliv@debian.org>	Debian i10n Português <debian-l10n-portuguese@lists.debian.org>
de_DE	94.23%	Steffen Möller, Andreas Tille <{moeller,tille}@debian.org>	German <de@li.org>
ru_RU	100%	Lutsenko Denis <palacex@gmail.com>

Updating locales

To update existing locales with new messages from the code, first cd to the locale/ directory:

$ cd trunk/community/website/locale/

After that, you will find some scripts there. So, run:

$ ./update-messages
$ ./update-locales
......done
...
$ svn ci -m "Catalogs updated"
...
Commit of revision xxx done.
$

After that, pick up your favourite editor, edit your .po file, and commit it!

Add new locale

To add a new locale, please use your authenticated SVN access.
First, checkout the locale/ directory:

$ svn co svn+ssh://myaliothlogin@svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/community/website/locale/

After this, create a new directory for your locale (let's suppose it's fr_FR):

$ mkdir -p fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/

Next step is actually adding the .po catalog. Copy the .pot template to your newly created directory, and start translating:

$ cp messages.pot fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
$ cd fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/
$ vi messages.po

Now you need to compile the catalog you've just translated, and add everything under SVN control (we're in the LC_MESSAGES/ directory in this example):

$ msgfmt messages.po
$ ls
messages.mo messages.po
$ cd ../../ # up to the locale/ directory
$ ls
it_IT/ fr_FR/ messages.pot
$ svn add fr_FR/
A fr_FR/
A fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/
A fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
A fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
$

Now it's time to commit the changes:

$ svn commit -m "Adding fr_FR locale"
Sending      locale/fr_FR/
Sending      locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/
Sending      locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
Sending      locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
Sending data ....
Commit of Revision xxx done.
$

Please note that the automatic loading of locales has not been tested yet. Please send an e-mail to debian-med@lists.debian.org if you encounter any problems.