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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.

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

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.)

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.