Translations for programs are provided in files with the `.po` suffix. These are created by copying PO-template (`.pot`) files, and filling in the missing "msgstr" values. To add a translation, you'll first (1) need to create the `.pot` files, and then (2) copy them and (3) fill them in. # 1. Create `.pot` files libretools' .pot files are not tracked in git; they are created by running `make` (you'll need a checkout of both devtools-par and libretools to run `make` if building from git). In addition to the usual (`base-devel`) depenencies when running `make`, you'll need the `ruby-ronn` package as well. $ sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel ruby-ronn ... $ git clone https://git.parabola.nu/packages/devtools-par.git/ $ git clone https://git.parabola.nu/packages/libretools.git/ $ cd libretools $ make ... $ cd po/ $ ls HACKING gitget.pot librelib.pot libretools.pot xbs.pot ... # 2. Create `.po` files from them Create a folder under `po/` with the two-letter language code[^1] you want to add. Then, copy the `.pot` files to that folder, changing the file extension to `.po`; for example: $ mkdir es $ for file in *.pot; do cp $file es/${file%t}; done [^1]: See the langauge code table here: # 3. Fill the `.po` files in with translations From there you can open each .po file in your favorite text editor, and fill in the `msgstr` values with translations of the associated `msgid` keys.