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diff --git a/src/po/README.txt b/src/po/README.txt index 50aff6a835..801f5e56a7 100644 --- a/src/po/README.txt +++ b/src/po/README.txt @@ -160,3 +160,20 @@ convert ja.po to EUC-JP (supposed as your system encoding): "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EUC-JP\n" There are examples in the Makefile for the conversions already supported. + + +TRANSLATION OF VIM THE EDITOR PLUG-INS + +Vim supports displaying plugin messages for various native languages. +Translation is available both for plugins that are supplied as part of the Vim +editor (e.g. "optwin.vim") and for third-party plugin packages. + +To translate the plugins supplied with the Vim editor, you must specify a +gettext() function call for the strings you want to translate. +The translation of these strings will be retrieved by gettext() from the MO +file "vim.mo". + +For third-party plugins, it is necessary to specify a one-time call to the +bindtextdomain() function in scripts containing translation strings and for +all message strings to add a {package} argument to the gettext() function. For +more information, see ":help package-translation". |