Re: [Bug-gnubg] i18n

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 15 Jul 2003 (22:54 +0200), Achim wrote:
> Am Die, 2003-07-15 um 18.33 schrieb Jim Segrave:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> 
> Not exactly. I just went through the gettext documentation.
> 
> 1. You search for the source
> 2. You change it
> 3. (xgettext or msgmerge to create or update a *.pot file) This is done
> automatically by the makefile in po/ after compiling the whole source.
> 4. (gmake update-po) Not neccesary anymore.
> 5. Look for questionable entries (Those that changed)
> 6. Update your *.po file.

Note that you also need to update everyone else's .po file, as they
will have supplied translations for msgids which no longer
exist. Unless of course you are a polyglot and are willing to update all
the translations :-)

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