Essentially before you can use any of the other tools, you must run this one. What it does is scan a directory you provide for I386 setup directories from MUI discs and the Windows XP setup disc.

I recommend you have a directory set up like so:

<somewhere>/discs

<somewhere>/discs/MuiDisc1 (extracted contents of the first MUI disc)

<somewhere>/discs/MuiDisc2 (extracted contents of the second MUI disc)

<somewhere>/discs/MuiDisc3 (extracted contents of the third MUI disc)

<somewhere>/discs/MuiDisc4 (extracted contents of the fourth MUI disc)

<somewhere>/discs/MuiDisc5 (extracted contents of the fifth MUI disc)

<somewhere>/discs/XPDisc (extracted contents of a Windows XP with Service Pack 3 disc)

Then you can run ./muiprep.sh <somewhere>/discs and it will build the working directory for you. It might take a while to decompress all the files.

Once done you should see a mui-stuff folder, and in it should be all the various languages and the XP source files.

transpot.sh

The main script that will generate translations for a given .pot file. You simply pass in the .pot file you would like to gather translations for, and this script will use scanstr.sh to scrape the sources and then build .po files in the same directory as the input .pot file.

Of course, it may not be possible to translate everything, some strings may not be present in Windows resources for one reason or another (hard-coded, or perhaps a new string entirely to handle a Linux-specific situation). Output is printed in the console to tell you exactly what's going on.

Example:

transpot.sh <repo root>/shell/run/po/locale.pot

scanstr.sh

Scans for translations of the provided string, using the MUI sources in the working directory set up by muiprep.sh.

For example:

scanstr.sh "Click here to begin"

Should output the resource string Click here to begin's translations in each MUI in the format:

<ISO language code>#<translated string>

mui2iso.sh

A simple script that simply maps the MUI language code (eg. GER or SV) to an ISO 639-1 language code as used by .po files.

For example:

mui2iso.sh SV

Will output:

sv_SE

With no newline after the output.