Howto work with pootle

[sawjer]

I have no problem translating the files of civicrm 2.1 that are already loaded on pootle.

My queation is: How do I get the translated file back to sourceforge for downloading an dhow do I update files in pootle.

Is it done automatically or is there any manual intervention needed?

[Piotr Szotkowski]

My queation is: How do I get the translated file back to sourceforge for downloading an dhow do I update files in pootle.

Is it done automatically or is there any manual intervention needed?

I commit all of the new translations into our code repository on a weekly basis. You can download the German MO file for CiviCRM 2.1 at http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/branches/v2.1/l10n/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/

We take a snapshot of all of the translations and upload it to SourceForge every time we do a release.

[sawjer]

Thank you for the information

I still miss some information: I can download the actual translation files with suffix .po . How do I convert them to the one file for civicrm with suffix .mo?

[Piotr Szotkowski]

I can download the actual translation files with suffix .po . How do I convert them to the one file for civicrm with suffix .mo?

It depends on the system you use. On Linux systems (and maybe Windows also), if you have the gettext program, you can do this by running

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msgcat -o civicrm.po *.po
msgfmt -o civicrm.mo civicrm.po

(As stated above, we do that on a weekly basis, so if running msgcat/msgfmt is a hassle for you, you can just wait until next Monday and download the fresh .mo file from the above URL.)

[sawjer]

Thank you for this info.

Normally I can wait for next update you do, but at the moment I have to quickly update the messages that still are in English. There I am glad for doing the update directly.

Sawjer

[Piotr Szotkowski]

Ok. Thanks a lot for your work! For what it’s worth, I recompiled the MO files and committed the updates from our translation server to our repository.

[sawjer]

Ok. Thanks a lot for your work! For what it’s worth, I recompiled the MO files and committed the updates from our translation server to our repository.

Great, thanks for your help

Sawjer