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+layout: forum
+title: 'Re: Bitcoin client and website translation'
+grand_parent: Forum Posts
+parent: Bitcoin Forum
+nav_order: 58
+date: 2010-02-17 19:19:43 UTC
+original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47.msg389#msg389
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+# Re: Bitcoin client and website translation
+
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+
+```
+Re: Bitcoin client and website translation
+February 17, 2010, 07:19:43 PM
+
+I updated the SVN with changes to support translation.  Translatable strings are all enclosed in _(""), and we're using UTF-8 on all platforms.
+
+When the program runs, it looks in the directory of the EXE for the file: locale\<langcode>\LC_MESSAGES\bitcoin.mo
+
+<langcode> is the two letter code of the language your OS is set to, like "de" or "nl".
+
+On Linux, it also looks for:
+/usr/share/locale/<langcode>/LC_MESSAGES/bitcoin.mo
+/usr/local/share/locale/<langcode>/LC_MESSAGES/bitcoin.mo
+(are there other standard places it should look on linux?)
+
+Here's a quick walkthrough using poedit to make a .po and .mo file:
+
+- Download the bitcoin sourcecode from SVN
+- In the trunk directory, mkdir locale\<lang>\LC_MESSAGES
+- In poedit, File->New catalog->Paths tab
+- Click the "New item" dotted rectangle button
+- Put "../../.." and MAKE SURE TO PRESS ENTER to add the path
+- Click OK
+- Save the file as "bitcoin.po" in the LC_MESSAGES directory you made
+- It should then scan the sourcecode and find about 170 strings
+- If it didn't find anything, check Catalog->Settings->Path tab, make sure the "../../.." was added
+
+When you're done translating, commit both bitcoin.po (the editable catalog file) and bitcoin.mo (compiled data used by the program).
+```