April 2016
Beginner to intermediate
400 pages
9h 16m
English
The PO file format is part of the gettext internationalization and localization system commonly used in Unix-like systems. This system includes tools to ease the translation work.
This recipe demonstrates how to use these tools to help translate our addon modules. We want to use it on a custom module, so my_module created in Chapter 3, Creating Odoo Modules is a good candidate. But feel free to replace it with some other custom module you have at hand, replacing the recipe's my_module references as appropriate.
To manage the translation from the command line, assuming that your Odoo installation is at ~/odoo-work/odoo, follow these steps: