An Introduction About KDE Tamil Translation – By Arulalan . T III M.C.A Kanchilug Member
Jun 14, 2015
An Introduction About KDE Tamil Translation
– By Arulalan . T III M.C.A
Kanchilug Member
Kubuntu 9.04
How to install Tamil Language Package : $ sudo aptget install languagepackkdeta
Type this command in Konsole ...
1. Select “ System Seetings “ From Kubuntu Menu
2. Select “ Regional & Language “
3. Select Tamil Language
4. Now Everything in Tamil
5. How to enable Tamil Type Writing
6. Select " India "
7. Move India towards Right Side
8. Select Layout
9. Move " India " towards Up
10. Set Shortcut to change Global Tamil Font to English Font & Vice Versa
Type this link in URL to get source string from internet
http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunkkde4/essential/
Select Tamil From that
http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunkkde4/team/ta/
Select “ ExtrangearMultimedia “
Right Click On Our Application Name ( Amarok ) and Click on “ Save Link As “ and Save that into our folder with default extension as . pot
Save that extension . Pot file as . Po extension file
Installation Poedit
$ sudo aptget install poedit
Open poedit
Open . po file ( eg : Open amarok.po )
Amarok Player in English Strings
Opened . po file in Poedit
Select English Strings and Type Corresponding Meaningful Stings in Tamil
Use Symbols as it is ( for eg: & , % , + , Numericals , etc )
Convert all Strings into Tamil and finally Click Save Button.
By default it will create . mo extention file in that same folder.
Copy this . mo file ( amarok.mo ) into /usr/share/localelangpack/ta/LC_MESSAGES/
$ sudo cp amarok.mo /usr/share/localelangpack/ta/LC_MESSAGES/
Now Open that application , ( here open amarok )
Now we can see our application in Tamil String which was typed by us .
Same Procedure , we can follow to change english strings to all other languges ...
Enjoy with your Mother Tounge ! ! !
Best Wishes From ARULALAN . T
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