Re: [Bug-gnubg] i18n

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 15 Jul 2003 (17:40 +0200), Mueller, Achim wrote:
> Am Die, 2003-07-15 um 15.37 schrieb Jim Segrave:
> > On Tue 15 Jul 2003 (13:21 +0200), Mueller, Achim wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > while doing the german translation I sometimes find typos or
> > > misspellings in the msgids. Where is the place to correct them?
> > > 
> > > Ciao
> > > 
> > > Achim
> > 
> > The msgids should be automatically extracted from the source. You
> > can't fix them without fixing the source itself (which is fine with 
> > me). As I understand it, gettext will use the msgid to look up the 
> > translation, so correcting a typo/spelling fault in the msgid without
> > changing the program source would make the translation disappear.
> 
> Ok, that's not too difficult, because the po files show the appropriate
> source file. But what about po/gnubg.pot?

I'm not an expert on I18N, but I believe this would work:

fix the strings in the source
make sure the fixed strings are replaced in each of the po/xx.po
files, so the other languages will pick up the change

remove or rename po/gnubg.pot

run make, this reconstructs po/gnubg.pot

I think Oystein or Joern may know more exactly.

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