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Currently it is not possible to easily translate extensions. Joe Murray had posted a good blog post about this a while back on what kind of workflow we could use: http://civicrm.org/blogs/joe-murray/translations-extensions

I was hoping to work on this during the code sprints following the SF 2013 CiviCon (http://sf2013.civicrm.org/).

In short:

* Check whether we can bind multiple domains, so that we can load the .mo translation file of each extension. (ex: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9668471/use-multiple-domains-in-gettext-in-a-php-application)

In the mean time, some workarounds, not ideal:

* create your own .po file, and merge it with the civicrm.mo file:

msgunfmt civicrm.mo -o civicrm.po
msgcat --use-first *.po | msgfmt -o civicrm.mo -

* or, use a custom translation handler (it can be set in Admin -> Localisation -> Language). You could try to bind a new gettext domain from there, until it becomes available in core.

If you're not familiar with native gettext, it gives a very good performance improvement (over 20%), but your host needs to support it:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+Localisation#CiviCRMLocalisation-Usingnativegettextsupport/setlocale

Mathieu (bgm on #civicrm)

BGM: This would be a great project for the sprints. Joe will be there too.

Finally I used the option

* create your own .po file, and merge it with the civicrm.mo file

I put the steps that work for me.
1. Execute the script to generate the "po" from the extension (https://github.com/civicrm/l10n/blob/master/bin/create-pot-files-extensions.sh , that you did it  )
../l10n/bin/./create-pot-files-extensions.sh "extension" . "extension"/
2. Convert pot to po with POEditor(one option)
3. Extract de civicrm.po in folder (l10n / po / es_ES  (extracting the spanish)) with: "msgunfmt civicrm.mo -o civicrm.po"
4. Move the po generate in step 2 to the folder(l10n / po / es_ES)
5. Generate the mo: msgcat --use-first *.po | msgfmt -o civicrm.mo -
6. Change the language from CiviCRM

Thanks!