Compilation of .po files

[korell]

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...

[Piotr Szotkowski]

If you’re using our ‘official’ translation, then the MO file is already compiled – get the civicrm-*-i10n.tar.gz file for your release and you’ll find all the MO files there.

If you’re using your own translation, please consider contributing it – we’ll maintain the MO files for you.

Finally, msgfmt can take multiple files as its parameters, so you could try `msgfmt -vo civicrm.mo *.po` – the catch is, we have multiple definitions of some strings, and msgfmt doesn’t like this, hence our use of msgcat: `msgcat *.po | msgfmt -vo civicrm.mo -` (your type approach won’t work here).

Note: I don’t know how one does output redirection in Windows’ shell, but it’s either with > or |, not both.

[korell]

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

[Piotr Szotkowski]

I have already downladed the i10n-file. There is no official translation in Norwegian, so I need some help to make it work..

Well, I remember seeding it, and yep, it’s right there. There doesn’t seem to be any work done on it, though.

You can also get the MO file straight from our code repository.

If I can make it work, I will distribute the work I've done.

Thanks, most appreciated!

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

Do you do this from inside the directory where you have the PO files? (It says there aren’t any PO files in where you try to run this command from.)

[korell]

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.

[Piotr Szotkowski]

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.

Hm, interesting. Every time I check it’s right there:

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shot@devielle:~$ tar -tf civicrm-1.9.12432-l10n.tar.gz | grep no_NO
civicrm/l10n/no_NO/
civicrm/l10n/no_NO/LC_MESSAGES/
civicrm/l10n/no_NO/LC_MESSAGES/civicrm.mo


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.

This is very strange. What does dir show, and what does dir *.po show?

[korell]

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)

[korell]

Can I execute the two commands in two steps?
I have some problems with the syntax of the commands... I just cannot understand why they dont work...

[Piotr Szotkowski]

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:

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


[korell]

Thanks!

When I try to run the commands I get this error:
Error opening *.po for reading. Invalid argument.

Then about 20 errormessages like this:
Duplicated definition of message
..this is the location of the first definition

Then...:
Too many errors. Aborting.

I'm statring to think that the win32-version of these commands have some bugs or work differently than in the unix world.

[Piotr Szotkowski]

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

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


[korell]

Thanks a lot! That solved the case. No errors this time.

[Dave Greenberg]

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 :-)

[HanV]

I have the same problem as Korell.

I have worked with Pootle on the translation. Then I use the Zip-link to get the 7 different po-files on my PC (Windows, Drupal, poedit).
I first tried to get the new translation by importing the po-files with drupal, but that won't work because civicrm uses the mo-files.
I can translate each po-file with poedit to the mo-file, but it seems that there should be only one mo-file: civicrm.mo

I have combined the po-files to one po-file and translated that (poedit), but then I get the errors that the texts are not unique.

How can I use msgcat and msgfmt on Windows, or how do I create one mo-file?

[Piotr Szotkowski]

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):

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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).