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# Translations
## Workflow
- Build firmware using build.sh. That creates necessary files in the `lang` dir.
- add messages that are new: investigate not-tran.txt, copy selected strings into `lang_add.txt` and run lang-add.sh
- export PO files for translation: `lang-export.sh`
- when translators finish their work use `lang-import.sh`
## Files
### `lang_en.txt`
```
#MSG_CRASH_DET_ONLY_IN_NORMAL c=20 r=4
"Crash detection can\x0abe turned on only in\x0aNormal mode"
```
### `lang_en_*.txt`
```
#MSG_CRASH_DET_ONLY_IN_NORMAL c=20 r=4
"Crash detection can\x0abe turned on only in\x0aNormal mode"
"Crash detekce muze\x0abyt zapnuta pouze v\x0aNormal modu"
```
1. a comment - usually a MSG define with number of characters (c) and rows (r)
2. English text
3. translated text
### `not_tran.txt`
A simple list of strings that are not translated yet.
### `not_used.txt`
A list os strings not currently used in the firmware. May be removed from `lang_en_*.txt` files by hand.
## Scripts
### `config.sh`
- Checks setup and sets auxiliary env vars used in many other scripts.
- Looks for env var `ARDUINO`. If not found/empty, a default `C:/arduino-1.8.5` is used.
- Sets env var `CONFIG_OK=1` when all good, otherwise sets `CONFIG_OK=0`
### `fw-build.sh`
Joins firmware HEX and language binaries into one file.
### `fw-clean.sh`
### `lang-add.sh`
Adds new messages into the dictionary regardless of whether there have been any older versions.
### `lang-build.sh`
Generates lang_xx.bin (language binary files) for the whole firmware build.
Arguments:
- `$1` : language code (`en`, `cz`, `de`, `es`, `fr`, `it`, `pl`) or `all`
- empty/no arguments defaults to `all`
Input: `lang_en.txt` or `lang_en_xx.txt`
Output: `lang_xx.bin`
Temporary files: `lang_xx.tmp` and `lang_xx.dat`
Description of the process:
The script first runs `lang-check.py $1` and removes empty lines and comments (and non-translated texts) into `lang_$1.tmp`.
The tmp file now contains all translated texts (some of them empty, i.e. "").
The tmp file is then transformed into `lang_$1.dat`, which is a simple dump of all texts together, each terminated with a `\x00`.
Format of the `bin` file:
- 00-01: `A5 5A`
- 02-03: `B4 4B`
- 04-05: 2B size
- 06-07: 2B number of strings
- 08-09: 2B checksum
- 0A-0B: 2B lang code hex data: basically `en` converted into `ne`, i.e. characters swapped. Only `cz` is changed into `sc` (old `cs` ISO code).
- 0C-0D: 2B signature low
- 0E-0F: 2B signature high
- 10-(10 + 2*number of strings): table of string offsets from the beginning of this file
- after the table there are the strings themselves, each terminated with `\x00`
The signature is composed of 2B number of strings and 2B checksum in lang_en.bin. Signature in lang_en.bin is zero.
### `lang-check.sh` and `lang-check.py`
Both do the same, only lang-check.py is newer, i.e. lang-check.sh is not used anymore.
lang-check.py makes a binary comparison between what's in the dictionary and what's in the binary.
### `lang-clean.sh`
Removes all language output files from lang folder. That means deleting:
- if [ "$1" = "en" ]; then
rm_if_exists lang_$1.tmp
else
rm_if_exists lang_$1.tmp
rm_if_exists lang_en_$1.tmp
rm_if_exists lang_en_$1.dif
rm_if_exists lang_$1.ofs
rm_if_exists lang_$1.txt
fi
rm_if_exists lang_$1_check.dif
rm_if_exists lang_$1.bin
rm_if_exists lang_$1.dat
rm_if_exists lang_$1_1.tmp
rm_if_exists lang_$1_2.tmp
### `lang-export.sh`
Exports PO (gettext) for external translators.
### `lang-import.sh`
Import from PO
### `progmem.sh`
Examine content of progmem sections (default is progmem1).
Input:
- $OUTDIR/Firmware.ino.elf
- $OUTDIR/sketch/*.o (all object files)
Outputs:
- text.sym - formated symbol listing of section '.text'
- $PROGMEM.sym - formated symbol listing of section '.progmemX'
- $PROGMEM.lss - disassembly listing file
- $PROGMEM.hex - variables - hex
- $PROGMEM.chr - variables - char escape
- $PROGMEM.var - variables - strings
- $PROGMEM.txt - text data only (not used)
Description of process:
- check input files
- remove output files
- list symbol table of section '.text' from output elf file to text.sym (sorted by address)
- calculate start and stop address of section '.$PROGMEM'
- dump $PROGMEM data in hex format, cut disassembly (keep hex data only) into $PROGMEM.lss
- convert $PROGMEM.lss to $PROGMEM.hex:
- replace empty lines with '|' (variables separated by empty lines)
- remove address from multiline variables (keep address at first variable line only)
- remove '<' and '>:', remove whitespace at end of lines
- remove line-endings, replace separator with '\n' (join hex data lines - each line will contain single variable)
- convert $PROGMEM.hex to $PROGMEM.chr (prepare string data for character check and conversion)
- replace first space with tab
- replace second and third space with tab and space
- replace all remaining spaces with '\x'
- replace all tabs with spaces
- convert $PROGMEM.chr to $PROGMEM.var (convert data to text) - a set of special characters is escaped here including `\x0a`
### `textaddr.sh`
Compiles `progmem1.var` and `lang_en.txt` files to `textaddr.txt` file (mapping of progmem addreses to text idenifiers).
Description of process:
- check if input files exists
- create sorted list of strings from progmem1.var and lang_en.txt
- lines from progmem1.var will contain addres (8 chars) and english text
- lines from lang_en.txt will contain linenumber and english text
- after sort this will generate pairs of lines (line from progmem1 first)
- result of sort is compiled with simple script and stored into file textaddr.txt
Input:
- progmem1.var
- lang_en.txt
Output:
- textaddr.txt
update_lang.sh