Adding a new language¶

This document describes how to add a new language to the Mumie system. As an example, we consider the Swedish language.

Create the language¶

Let <checkin_root> denote your checkin root on your local computer. Recall that languages are kept in system/languages (cf. [[doc:manuals:general_principles:index|general principles]]). Change the working directory as follows:

cd <checkin_root>/system/languages

(take care to replace <checkin_root> by the actual checkin root). Open a text editor and create a file with the following content:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII"?>
  <mumie:language xmlns:mumie="http://www.mumie.net/xml-namespace/document/metainfo">
    <mumie:name>Swedish</mumie:name>
    <mumie:description>
      Swedish language
    </mumie:description>
    <mumie:code>se</mumie:code>
  </mumie:language>

Save the file with the name

lng_se.meta.xml

This is the master file of the new language. Finally, upload the new language to the Mumie server:

mmckin -a <alias> lng_se.meta.xml

Replace <alias> the the appropriate server account alias. If the alias is default, you can omit -a <alias>.

The language does now exist on the server.

Declare the new language in Mmcdk¶

Mmcdk stores the languages it knows in a Java system property named net.mumie.cdk.langCodes. The value of the property is a comma-separated list of language codes. The default is en,de. We must add the new language to this list. This can be done in two ways:

System-wide¶

Let <build_prefix> be the Mumie build prefix (i.e., the location where all your Mumie software is installed). Open the file

<build_prefix>/etc/mmcdk/local_mmcdk.init

in a text browser. Create the file if it does not exist already. Insert the line

mmjvmc setprop net.mumie.cdk.langCodes=en,de,se

If you have changed the default list before, replace en,de by the actual list if languages.

Ask each user to restart mmjvmd.

For a singe user¶

Do the same as above, but replace

<build_prefix>/etc/mmcdk/local_mmcdk.init

by

~/.mmcdk/mmcdk.init

Create the folder ~.mmcdk if necessary.