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This application will allow a translator to edit the translations for the keys that are used in the Kettle source code.

To run Translator you will need access to the source code and have a Java 1.5 development kit installed.  You also need ant to compile Kettle.  Once you ran ant and built the Kettle libraries, you can execute translator from the root of the Kettle source code folder.

Translator

The translator GUI allows you access to all the available locale that are available.  It will colour those packages that contain messages files that are lacking translations compared to en_US.  You can then simply enter the translations and update the corresponding messages files.  For example, updating the fr_FR (French - France) translations in package org.pentaho.di.core.plugins would lead to an update in file src-core/org/pentaho/di/core/plugins/messages/messages_fr_FR.properties.  The Translator application takes care of proper UTF-8 encoding of the properties files as well as figuring out the proper place to store the file.

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