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date Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:44:33 +0100
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1 Getan Message Translations
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4 The message catalogs are managed with the following software:
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6 - pygettext (usually distributed with Python)
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8 - GNU gettext (msgmerge and msgfmt)
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11 Common tasks:
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13 - Create/Update getan.pot-File when the sources were edited and
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14 messages have been added or changed and after a fresh checkout
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16 $ make pot
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18 - When the getan.pot has been changed, run
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20 $ make merge
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22 to merge the changes in the pot file with the messages already in the
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23 *.po files.
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25 - When the translations in the po files have been changed, run
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27 $ make mo
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29 to generate new .mo files under ../share/locale
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31 - The make mo command prints statistics about the translations. To get
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32 a less verbose version use this:
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34 $ make stat
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