High speed update of your .mo files

[erwindeclerck]

It took me at least a night to get gettext up and running on Windows. 
As soon as you know how it works, it's simple. As usual... 

The command line tool works perfect but in order to speed up production I wrote a little .bat file.

1. Dowload or git clone your po files from https://github.com/civicrm/l10n
2. Download or git clone the Windows version of gettext https://github.com/vslavik/gettext-tools-windows/releases
3. replace the bin folder from (1.) with the one from (2.) (same .sh files + .exe files)
4. create a po/ folder inside workdir/
3. Create a .bat file in the root of this l10n folder. eg. po2mo.bat as follows:

@ECHO OFF
bin\msgcat.exe -o workdir\po\civicrm.po po\YOUR_LANGUAGE\*.po
bin\msgfmt.exe -o workdir\mo\civicrm.mo workdir\po\civicrm.po
@ftp -i -s:"%~f0"&GOTO:EOF
open YOURDOMAIN
YOURLOGIN
YOURPASS
!:--- FTP commands below here ---
lcd C:\PATH_TO_YOUR_LOCAL_FOLDER\l10n\workdir\mo
cd  /PATH_TO_YOUR_REMOTE_FOLDER/civicrm/l10n/YOUR_LANGUAGE/LC_MESSAGES
binary
mput "*.*"
disconnect
bye

I open all the .po files of my language in a texteditor (I use EditPad Pro 7, but others are fine too) and search for a pattern in all these files.

EditPad Pro offers the possibility to fire a custom script from a custom button. I coupled my .bat file to it and hups, my translations are up to date in seconds.

Hope this can help someone else too. 

Kind regards.

Erwin

[mathieu]

Hi Erwin,

Thanks for sharing!

For what it's worth, there are daily compiled language files available:
https://download.civicrm.org/civicrm-l10n-core/mo/xx_XX/civicrm.mo (where xx_XX is your language code, such as es_ES)

Meaning that if you use Transifex to translate CiviCRM (https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/civicrm/), the changes will be available the day after at the above URL.

The files are also available for extensions, using URLs in the form of:
https://download.civicrm.org/civicrm-l10n-extensions/mo/$extname/xx_XX/$extname.mo

There is also an extension that can help with automatically downloading the translation files:
https://github.com/cividesk/com.cividesk.l10n.update

Mathieu

[erwindeclerck]

Thanks Mathieu,

Transifex was the first option I tried. But -unless I do something wrong- the production speed is horribly slow.
Just to find a string within all files is very time consuming. Perhaps it's because I'm not a member of a translating team yet.
Finding strings in all my local files is a matter of seconds. After keying in the corrections, with the little .bat file I have my updated language file up and running on the server within less than a few seconds.
I haven't done it yet, but the next step would be to commit the changes in my .po files and merge them with the changes I pull from https://github.com/cividesk/com.cividesk.l10n.update.
How I should share my corrections later on towards Transifex isn't clear yet.

To my experience, being able to correct errors immediately while I am going through the installation/configuration process is a huge advantage.

Greetings,
Erwin