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Internationalisation

Currently MuseScore contains a mix of german and english. My english is not too good so its likely that MuseScore contains some bad/wrong musical terms. To fix this i need your help.

If you want to contribute a translation the following hints may be of help to you:

Step 1:

      enter the MuseScore directory and edit the
      file "mscore.pro"

      Append a new target file name at "TRANSLATIONS"
      e.g. change
            TRANSLATIONS = mscore_de.ts
      into
            TRANSLATIONS = mscore_de.ts mscore_fr.ts
      if you want to generate a french MuseScore version.

Step 2:

start the Qt-Program "lupdate"

lupdate mscore.pro

      Maybe "lupdate" is not in your PATH and you must
      specify the complete pathname "lupdate"
      Example:
            /usr/lib/qt4/bin/lupdate mscore.pro

      This generates the file "locale/mscore_fr.ts".

Step 3:

Edit "locale/mscore_fr.ts" manually or use the Qt "linguist" tool:

linguist mscore_fr.ts

Step 4:

     Save the edited file "mscore_fr.ts" from linguist and
     start File->Release. This generates the file "locale/mscore_fr.qm"

      or

      start the Qt program "lrelease"

            lrelease mscore.pro

      This generates all *.qm files.

Step 5:

install the *.qm files: as superuser start "make install"

Step 6:

Test

set the environment variable LC_ALL to the desired

Language

export LC_ALL=fr

            Start mscore:
                  mscore sonata16.msc

share/templates/instruments.xml:

      The instruments definition file can be localized by
      supplying a translated instruments_xx.xml file,
      where xx is a two-letter ISO 3166 country code.