<li>Find the two letter language code for your language. If translating to a regional dialect, append the two letter region or country code. Rename the file to match this. For example, Protuguese is pt.po, and Brazilian Portuguese is pt_BR.po.</li>

<li>Subscribe to gaim-i18n@lists.sf.net via <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-i18n" title="Gaim-i18n Mailing List">the SF subscribe page</a></li>

<li>Open the translation file you downloaded in a text editor</li>

<li>Translated .po files may be submitted in whatever native encoding is

most convenient (and hopefully canonical). Please ensure that the

Content-type: line reflects the proper character set.</li>

# This file is distributed under the same license as the Gaim package.

#

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<li>Post partial or completed files to <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=235&atid=713922" title="Translation Tracker">the Translations Tracker</a></li>

<li>Along with your first submission, note what name(s) and email address(es) should be put in help-&gt;about.</li>

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