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+layout: forum
+title: 'Bitcoin client and website translation'
+grand_parent: Forum Posts
+parent: Bitcoin Forum
+nav_order: 45
+date: 2010-02-08 16:10:37 UTC 
+original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47.msg283#msg283
+---
+
+# Bitcoin client and website translation
+---
+
+```
+Bitcoin client and website translation
+February 08, 2010, 04:10:37 PM
+
+It's much easier to have a single binary and multiple .mo files.  It's too much maintenance work to have lots of build variations.  Once the software support is implemented, anyone could contribute translations.
+
+wxWidgets uses the gettext standard.  You use the gettext tools or something like poedit to create a .po file by scanning the sourcefiles for strings and editing the translations into the .po file, then compile it into a .mo file.  The program loads the .mo file at runtime and reskins all the strings.  Additional languages can be added to an existing program by adding .mo files without recompiling the program.
+
+On Windows, the .mo files would go in a lang subdirectory in the directory where the EXE is located.
+
+Right now I'm working on JSON-RPC and command line support, but when I'm finished with that I hope to do this next.
+```