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How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
January 09, 2011, 02:40:19 am
Hello

I've been accepted into the Spanish translation team for CiviCRM. I can edit and add new translations to *. mo of the project, but ...

How I can export my translations into a single file, civicrm.mo?

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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
January 09, 2011, 03:45:25 pm
You have a few options to download the .po files:

1- download one at the time (long, hard to automate)
2- use the transifex command line client http://help.transifex.net/user-guide/client/client-0.4.html (I have never tested it, but looks interesting)
3- download from github: https://github.com/civicrm/l10n/tree/3.3/po/es (the translations are committed to github automatically) - this is what I use, since it makes it easier to track what has changed in translations.  i.e. git clone https://github.com/civicrm/l10n.git

Then you have to concatenate the files and compile them:

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

Then place the resulting civicrm.mo onto your server, in civicrm/l10n/es/civicrm.mo

More information is available in:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/BasicConcepts (Internationalisation/localisation chapter)

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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
January 10, 2011, 05:22:10 am
Quote from: mlutfy on January 09, 2011, 03:45:25 pm
3- download from github: https://github.com/civicrm/l10n/tree/3.3/po/es (the translations are committed to github automatically) - this is what I use, since it makes it easier to track what has changed in translations.  i.e. git clone https://github.com/civicrm/l10n.git

Note that since the 1.0 transifex.net ‘upgrade’ this is no longer true; they turned off the auto-syncing and I do it manually, at least for now. I’ll try to come up with a better solution, but probably not before end of the month (we have a tight CiviCRM 3.4 release cycle that takes priority now).
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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
January 10, 2011, 06:13:15 am
Piotr: how do you pull the files from Transifex before committing them to git? one by one, manually?

(thinking out loud) It would be kind of nice to be able to push to the github/civicrm repository, as a language maintainer. It would facilitate review and "sign-off" of translations, but I guess that, given the number of languages, and the various technical preferences of each team, that would not be a very efficient process. (I guess most of us would forget to review/commit)
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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
January 10, 2011, 12:56:56 pm
I just decompiled the mo, using GETTEXT for Windows, made the changes using a text editor and then recompiled it again and uploaded it to the server.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm

Just follow the instruction in the /docs folder. Enter the commands using command line in windows.

Easypeasy.  :-*

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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
January 10, 2011, 01:05:48 pm
@ Hans: when possible, it is best if you can recontribute those translations to the community. You'll benefit from other people's work, as they will from yours, and will avoid something being done twice. Also, when you upgrade CiviCRM, it will avoid you to merge the translation files.

If you only need to override a few specific strings (or expressions) for something specific to your context, you can use the "word replacement" feature of CiviCRM (Admin -> List options -> Word replacement).
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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
January 11, 2011, 11:19:03 am
Yes indeed there were only a few terms that needed to be changed. I used the "word replacement" to change terms in English but it did not work in the second language, French. Does it work in the secon language?

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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
January 13, 2011, 02:04:24 am
Thank you very much for your help! I´ll try your advices.

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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
January 26, 2011, 12:58:05 pm
I've set up my environment so that I pull the latest translations from Transifex using their command line client, and will be attempting to msgcat and msgfmt them into an .mo to upload to my site. That way I can really test (my own) translations while still sharing it.

However I can't find a way to only pull a single language from Transifex...

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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
March 16, 2011, 01:22:29 pm
I created detailed instructions how to use Poedit, translate .po files and then compile them into one .mo file: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,19068.0.html

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Re: How can I export po files to civicrm.mo?
June 10, 2013, 04:11:04 pm
po to mo

mo to po, mo>po.
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Converter_en

Find your .mo file, right click your mouse on it, see what? ”Convert .mo file to .po file”. Click it and you will see the .po file right away.
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