Translations

EpyMC use the standard gettext way for handling translations, it will use your system language by default, to force the usage of a different language you can run epymc in this way:

LANG=en_US epymc (change en_US to the language you like)

Add a new language

To add a new language to EpyMC just add it's code (ex: "it" or "en") to the LINGUAS file present in the data/locale folder of the sources and run:

python setup.py update_po

to generate the new empty po file under data/locale/your_code.po

Editing the po file

Once you generate the empty po file you can edit it with a text editor or (much better) using the poedit application to edit the file. If you are editing a new po file don't forget to fill the information in the header of the file (just look at other existing file), really important are the charset (usually UTF-8) and the Plural-Forms (this is language dependent).

To try your modification just reinstall epymc using:

(sudo) python setup.py install

This will compile your po file in the mo format under epymc/locale/your_code.mo and this file will be installed alogside the others in the epymc package.