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The localization component type describes language packs for individual software components or groups of software components. A language pack includes anything necessary to localize a software component for a specific language and/or country. This is usually translations, but may also be translated media content, currency information and other things. A localization component extends one or multiple other components and defines the languages it provides via its languages tag. Language packs can ship one or more metainfo files as /usr/share/metainfo/%{id}.metainfo.xml. Do not confuse language packs with the catalog metadata tag, used to identify bundled translations.

A localization metainfo file can look like this: org.kde.l10n.de KDE German Language

German localization for the KDE desktop and apps

org.kde.plasmashell org.kde.gwenview.desktop org.kde.dolphin.desktop ... http://i18n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=de FSFAP The KDE German L10N team de_DE de_AT de ... ]]>

Note that the XML root must have the type property set to localization. This clearly identifies this metainfo document as describing a language pack. <id/> For localizations, the value of the <id/> tag must follow the reverse-DNS scheme as described for generic components. Ideally, the name of the component this language pack is for should be suffixed with .l10n.%{lang}, where %{lang} is the language code of the language pack. For example, if your applications component-id is org.gimp.gimp the ID of the German language pack for GIMP should be org.gimp.gimp.l10n.de. <extends/> The extends tags contain all the components this language pack can be used with. <languages/> This tag gives information about the locale a localization component provides support for. The tag is allowed to only occur once per component, and contains multiple <lang/> child nodes, which have a language code as value. Each <lang/> node may have a percentage property, which describes the percentage value to which a component has been translated. Tag example: de_DE de_AT ]]> For a component of type localization, the following tags are required and must be present for a valid document: , , , , , .