[imp] Translation cache?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Fabio Gomes <flgomes at fazenda.sp.gov.br>:

> Em Qui 04 Nov 2004 12:26, Jan Schneider escreveu:
>> Zitat von Fabio Gomes <flgomes at fazenda.sp.gov.br>:
>> >   Omg, guess what. As I said I updated the translation of the string
>> > "Mail" in
>> > horde/po/pt_BR.po file. That's the only po file in my installation with
>> > the string "Mail". Then, was there I made the change.
>> > But doing some debug in my installation today I figured out that
>> > Horde/IMP was
>> > looking for the translation of the string "Mail" in horde/imp/locale, not
>> > in horde/locale where should be the right place to check.
>> >
>> >   Then I discovered that the already compiled
>> > horde/imp/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pt_BR.mo file had the translation for
>> > "Mail" in it, but the pt_BR.po file hasn't.
>> > What I've done? I included the translation for the string "Mail" in IMP
>> > pt_BR.po file and recompiled it. Then the translation worked as was
>> > supposed to work.
>> >
>> >   Then be aware: The po files with the IMP instalation DOES NOT reflect
>> > the already compiled mo files.
>>
>> This is by intention. The applications' .mo files are created from the
>> applications' .po files merged with horde's po file. This is necessary
>> because you can only have one textdomain active at the same time, while a
>> lot of strings in the applications come from horde code.
>>
>
> That's about the compendium files created by translation.php script, 
> is'nt it?

No, not at all. Compendiums are sort of dictionaries and only interesting
for translators.

> I thought that was an optional feature, not a must. And, even being a must,
> that translation.php didn't work in my solaris box.

Probably because it only works with recent GNU gettext versions.

> There is still a horde/docs/TRANSLATIONS file with the old 
> documentation about
> translations. That file helped me to mess up the teory. :-)
> Correct me if wrong: To manually update translations in my solaris box, from
> now on is simply:
>
> - cat horde.po >> application.po
> - msgfmt -v -o ../locale/[language]/LC_MESSAGES/application.mo application.po

No:

msgcomm --more-than=0 application.po horde.po | msgfmt -o application.mo -

Jan.

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