Translations¶

Betty is fully multilingual (internationalized), and can be localized to different locales, which includes translations of the built-in US English messages to any language of your choice.

Each time a message is translated, Betty finds the translation as follows:

If the project has a translation in its assets directory, use it
If an extension has a translation in its assets directory, use it
If a built-in translation exists, use it
If no translation exists, use the original US English message

Project translations¶

Adding a new translation¶

Run betty new-translation $locale where $locale is an IETF BCP 47 language tag.

This will create ./locale/$locale/betty.po, which you can then edit yourself.

Updating existing translations after changing translatable messages¶

If you’ve made changes to the translatable messages in your project, run betty update-translations to update betty.pot and any betty.po files for existing translations. You can then edit the updated betty.po files yourself.

Built-in translations¶

Betty ships with the following translations:

Arabic (ar): Translations are 4% complete.
Dutch (nl-NL): Translations are 100% complete.
English (en-US): Translations are 100% complete.
French (fr-FR): Translations are 38% complete.
German (de-DE): Translations are 68% complete.
Hebrew (he): Translations are 1% complete.
Ukrainian (uk): Translations are 100% complete.

Read more about how to contribute to Betty’s built-in translations.