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<sect1 id="translating">
<title>Translating Gnumeric</title>
<para>
There are a couple of things that should be kept in mind when
translating Gnumeric. Gnumeric, unlike regular applications
includes strings used to render numbers in various ways: as
dates, as times, as currency, number, as accounting-formatted
numbers. You should usually leave alone during the general
language translation the number formatting and the date
formatting codes.
</para>
<para>
For example, in Mxico, we speak spanish (language code "es"),
so a spanish translation should be done for all of the messages
in the program in the file es.po.
</para>
<para>
Dates in Mxico are represented as day/month/year. The Gnumeric
default is to follow the rules for the US, which are
month/day/year. Now, instead of adding those translations to
the es.po file, those strings should be added to a per-country
file, in this example the "es_MX.po" file. Currency in Mxico
uses the same symbols, so those format codes are left untouched.
Decimal point separator and thousand separators in Mexico are,
again, the same as in the US, so they are left untouched.
</para>
<para>
So, basically: when doing currency/date/number format
translation, make sure no other country that uses your language
has a different set of rules (when in doubt, just dont touch the
formatting codes and add your localized version to the nn_MM.po
file).
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="currency">
<title>Dealing with currency formats</title>
<para>
Gnumeric uses the locale information to distinguish which
character is used as a thousand separator and which one is used
as a decimal separator. On the number formatting strings, use
your country decimal separator as the decimal separator. For
example, given the format in Gnumeric "#.00", French translators
for France should change that to "#,00". Thus, the default
format "#,##0" (which means show at least one number, but
separate the thousands with commas) should be translated in this
case to "#.##0".
</para>
</sect1>
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