Annotator now has rudimentary support for localisation of its interface.
If you wish to use a provided translation, you need to add a link
tag pointing to the .po file, as well as include gettext.js
before you load the Annotator. For example, for a French translation:
<link rel="gettext" type="application/x-po" href="locale/fr/annotator.po"> <script src="lib/vendor/gettext.js"></script>
This should be all you need to do to get the Annotator interface displayed in French.
We now use Transifex to manage localisation efforts on Annotator. If you wish to contribute a translation you'll first need to sign up for a free account at
https://www.transifex.net/plans/signup/free/
Once you're signed up, you can go to
https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/annotator/
and get translating!
Any localisable string in the core of Annotator should be wrapped with a
call to the gettext function, _t, e.g.
console.log(_t("Hello, world!"))
Any localisable string in an Annotator plugin should be wrapped with a
call to the gettext function, Annotator._t, e.g.
console.log(Annotator._t("Hello from a plugin!"))
To update the localisation template (locale/annotator.pot), you
should run the i18n:update Cake task:
cake i18n:update
You should leave it up to individual translators to update their
individual .po files with the locale/l10n-update tool.