Exporting translation strings to a file

Translation strings can be exported with or without the translated texts for a selected language. This can be either to include in a module i18n data, or to later perform the translations with a text editor or perhaps with a specialized tool.

We will demonstrate how to do it using the standard mail module, so feel free to replace mail with your own module.

Getting ready

We will need to have the Developer Mode activated. If it's not, activate it as pointed out in Activating the Odoo developer tools recipe in Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment.

How to do it...

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