I have a quick question regarding the workflow.

I prefer not to do the translations directly inside the Weblate web interface, so I went to the server and downloaded a ZIP file containing the .po files to work on them locally. However, looking at the files has left me a bit confused.

Could you please guide me on:

What the best practice is for working on these .po files locally?

How I can properly test the translations to see how they look inside Inkscape on my machine?

Yoseph

On Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 12:50 PM ዮሴፍ ፈለቀ <yosephfeleke22@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Maren and Duarte,

Thanks so much for the warm welcome and for pointing me in the right direction!

I will look through the documentation links you shared and log into the translation server to check out the master branch. I'll let you know if I run into any questions as I get started.

Yoseph

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 1:50 AM Duarte Ramos <duarte.framos@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Yoseph.

UI translation these days is mostly done through https://translate.inkscape.org/

Otherwise have you gone through https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Translation_information ?

Let us know if you have any further difficulties.

On 15/06/2026 at 00:06, ዮሴፍ ፈለቀ <yosephfeleke22@gmail.com> wrote:

I want to work on translating Inkscape into Amharic. Can you please tell me what I need to do?

Yoseph