translation - How to add a new language for mysql's error messages?

Question

In $MySqlHome/share folder, there are 25 subfolders (25 languages) and errmsg-utf8.txt file which contains translations of the error messages. Under each subfolder there is a errmsg.sys.

I'd like to add a new language (zh-CN) and translate some of the messages.

How to do this?

Answer 1

The source file to edit is sql/share/errmsg-utf8.txt

At the top of this file, a line like

languages ... french=fre ...

declares the list of languages with abbreviations.

During the build, the program comp_err generates the language files under sql/share

If you add a new language in the header, it should pick it up.

Look also at file sql/share/cmake_install.cmake to install each generated language file.

Note: All the files listed here belong to the MySQL source code, you need to build from source to use the error generator (comp_err)