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authorGravatar Ton Voon <tonvoon@users.sourceforge.net> 2004-11-23 23:35:19 +0000
committerGravatar Ton Voon <tonvoon@users.sourceforge.net> 2004-11-23 23:35:19 +0000
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Guidelines on translated text (Yves Mettier, Simon Bellwood, Andreas Ericsson)
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<para>It is up to third party programs to convert the Nagios plugins
performance data into graphs.</para>
</section>
+
+ <section><title>Translations</title>
+ <para>If possible, use translation tools for all output. Currently, most of the core C plugins
+ use gettext for translation. General guidelines are:</para>
+
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem><para>short help is not translated</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>long help has options in English language, but text translated</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>"Copyright" kept in English</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>copyright holder names kept in original text</para></listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </section>
</section>
<section id="SysCmdAuxFiles"><title>System Commands and Auxiliary Files</title>