Crowdin Scripts

Managing Translations for FreeCAD

FreeCAD uses a 3rd party translation service called Crowdin to manage translations.

There are 3 scripts in FreeCAD/src/Tools that are used to manage translation files:

1. updatets.py (github source)
2. updatecrowdin.py (github source)
3. updatefromcrowdin.py (github source)

These scripts are run from the root of the FreeCAD/ directory. Note: In order for these scripts to work one needs to have the valid FreeCAD Crowdin API key placed in their ~/.crowdin-freecad file. (For security reasons, only available to people with admin rights on the crowdin FreeCAD project)

updatets.py

This script will create the .ts files in your local FreeCAD/ directory.

updatecrowdin.py

This script pushes changes to the Crowdin from your local FreeCAD/ directory. The script currently supports 4 arguments:

• updatecrowdin.py status prints a status of the translations
• updatecrowdin.py update updates crowdin the current version of .ts files found in the source code
• updatecrowdin.py build builds a new downloadable package on crowdin with all trasnlated strings
• updatecrowdin.py download downloads the latest build

updatefromcrowdin.py

This script pulls changes from crowdin to your local FreeCAD/ directory.