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Hi!

I have a drupal-site with the civicrm-module.

I want to use a norwegian translation for civicrm. I have downloaded the .po-files and the gettext-tools for windows. My problem is this: How do I (in windows) compile all the .po-files into one .mo-file? I have tried several ways that don't work so far:
"type *.po > | msgfmt -vo civicrm.mo -" - lots of errors.

Can I compile each file seperatly and somehow import the strings to civicrm to make it work?

Also, can I replace the content of the provinces-file to include only norwegian states and cities? Will this override existing provinces or will they just be an addition that is visible using this setting:

define( 'CIVICRM_COUNTRY_LIMIT' , 'NO' );
define( 'CIVICRM_PROVINCE_LIMIT' , 'NO' );
define( 'CIVICRM_DEFAULT_CONTACT_COUNTRY', 'NO' );

Please help with this so I can get my site running with civicrm...

I have already downladed the i10n-file. There is no official translation in Norwegian, so I need some help to make it work..  If I can make it work, I will distribute the work I've done.

You're right. There was an error in the command-line, but I just cannot make it work.

When I try the original commane line (the one you gave me) I get this error:

Error opening *.po for reading. Invalid argument.
0 translated strings

Thank you very much for your replies.

What I meant was that the norwegian version is not in the distributed version (in the civicrm-1.9.12432-l10n.tar.gz) as a .mo-file. I have found the norwegian files and have continued working on them.

I was running the command from within the directory with the .po-files. I tried various ways of running the command-line but all ended with various errors. No luck so far.

Don't know what was wrong, but when I downloaded the file again the norwegian file was there.. Maybe I dl'ed the wrong file last time.

Now I only need to know how to compile them. This is how I did it:
I copied the .po files to my c:\gettext-tools directory. Then I made a .bat file with the following command:

bin\msgcat *.po | bin\msgfmt -vo civicrm.mo -

(the bin-directory is not in path)

First, obviously your script must execute from inside the directory.

Second, yes, you can do the commands in two steps – sorry for not suggesting this earlier:

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


Well, I haven’t used Windows shell in years… What about explicitly spelling out the file names?

msgcat -o civicrm.po calendar.po civicrm-core.po civicrm-helpfiles.po civicrm-modules.po countries.po drupal-civicrm.po provinces.po


Please add instructions to the existing documentation covering how to do this in a Windows shell - so others don't have to go through the same hassles :-)

You don’t have to combine the PO files into one by hand (and definitely it’s not good doing it for translation, as we can’t get it back into CiviCRM in an easy way; it’s doable, just not trivial).

Basically, the best approach is to translate the PO files one by one. Once you want to check the translation, create a unique file out of them (with msgcat) and then compile it into a MO file (with msgfmt):

msgcat -o civicrm.po calendar.po civicrm-core.po civicrm-helpfiles.po civicrm-modules.po countries.po drupal-civicrm.po provinces.po
msgfmt -o civicrm.mo civicrm.po

If there are non-unique strings, feel free to delete one of them (but it shouldn’t happen with the current files).