Introduction

This document explains how to export translations from Launchpad, either as single PO or MO file for offline translation, testing or sending back upstream, or as a tarball containing all translations of a given release.

Exporting a single translation

TODO

Partial export

TODO https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/YourProject/PartialPOExport

Getting all translations

If you go to the main translations page of a given distro version, you'll see a See all language packs link.

If you click on the link, it will take you to a location where you can see all the tarballs containing PO files which are used as the source for language packs. Downloading those tarballs is an easy way of getting all translations of a given distro. Note that you should do this only if you really need them, as the tarballs contain translations for all languages and are several hundred MB in size.

There you'll see Full language pack and Delta language pack tarballs. The Full language packs contain an export of all translations, whereas the Delta ones only the ones which have changed since the last Full export.

So if you want to have the most recent translations, you'll have to download both the Full and Delta exports, and merge the Delta to the Full one. Here's how you can do it:

1. Download the latest Full language pack on the list.

2. Download the latest Delta language pack on the list (generally the top one)

3. TODO: Extract them
4. TODO: Merge them

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