1. Preparing the source

The first things to make a script translatable you must add this two lines to the rc script.

TEXTDOMAIN=my_service
TEXTDOMAINDIR=/lib/initscripts/messages

To mark a string as translatable in bash you must prefix the string with $.

echo $"This is a translatable string."

2. Creating the pot file

After this you must create the pot file.

$ bash --dump-po-strings rc.my_service | xgettext -L PO -o rc.my_service.pot -

3. Creating a po file

In the next step you create the po file.

$ msginit -l hu_HU

Now you can edit the po file with any editor.

4. Creating the mo files

To create and install the mo files, you must add the po files to the source() array and use the Frcd2 macro in build().