--[[ This file is part of darktable, Copyright 2016 by Tobias Jakobs. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . ]] --[[ darktable script to show how translations works To create the .po file run: xgettext -l lua gettextExample.lua xgettext is not a lua tool, it knows (almost) nothing about Lua, and not enough to do a proper parsing. It takes a text file (In our case a Lua file) and recognises a few (language dependant) keyword in there. It matches those keywords with internal description on how functions are called and creates the .po file accordingly. (For example, it knows that the first argument of gettext() is the translated string, but that it's the second argument for dgettext) This is important because it means that if you use some neat Lua tricks (like renaming functions) xgettext won't recognize those calls and won't extract the string to the .po file. So, this is why we create a local variagle gettext = dt.gettext, so xgettext recognises gettext.gettext as a function but not dt.gettext.gettext To create a .mo file run: msgfmt -v gettextExample.po -o gettextExample.mo USAGE * require this script from your main lua file (Add 'require "gettextExample"' to luarc.) * copy the script to: .config/darktable/lua/ * copy the gettextExample.mo to .config/darktable/lua/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES You need to start darktable with the Lua debug option: darktable -d lua $LANG must set to: de_DE The script run on darktable startup and should output this three lines: LUA ERROR Hello World! LUA ERROR Bild LUA ERROR Hallo Welt! ]] local dt = require "darktable" local du = require "lib/dtutils" --check API version du.check_min_api_version("3.0.0", "gettextExample") -- script_manager integration to allow a script to be removed -- without restarting darktable local function destroy() -- nothing to destroy end -- Not translated Text dt.print_error("Hello World!") local gettext = dt.gettext.gettext -- Translate a string using the darktable textdomain dt.print_error(gettext("image")) -- Define a local function called _ to make the code more readable and have it call dgettext -- with the proper domain. local function _(msgid) return gettext(msgid) end dt.print_error(_("hello world!")) -- set the destroy routine so that script_manager can call it when -- it's time to destroy the script and then return the data to -- script_manager local script_data = {} script_data.metadata = { name = _("gettext example"), purpose = _("example of how translations works"), author = "Tobias Jakobs", help = "https://docs.darktable.org/lua/stable/lua.scripts.manual/scripts/examples/gettextExample" } script_data.destroy = destroy return script_data