[i18n] Changing en phrases

[Aaron Paetznick]

I'm new to gettext and working with the Horde locale files, and I want 
to change a couple of the English phrases in Horde. I want to work 
within the system to do it, and I want to make sure that the custom 
phrases won't be overwritten by a future Horde update. I've read the 
online translations documentation 
<http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/TRANSLATIONS#extending-existent-translations>, 
but I haven't had much luck yet. I had originally submitted an 
enhancement ticket <https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14230> for this, but 
was referred to this mailing list. Please let me know if this isn't the 
proper forum to discuss this sort of request.

So far I've tried running "horde-translation update -m horde -l en", and 
it reported:

---------------------------
Horde translation generator
---------------------------
Loading libraries...
[   OK   ] Console_Getopt found.
[   OK   ] Console_Table found.
[   OK   ] File_Find found.

Searching gettext binaries...
[   OK   ] gettext found: /usr/bin/gettext
[   OK   ] msgattrib found: /usr/bin/msgattrib
[   OK   ] msgcat found: /usr/bin/msgcat
[   OK   ] msgcomm found: /usr/bin/msgcomm
[   OK   ] msgfmt found: /usr/bin/msgfmt
[   OK   ] msginit found: /usr/bin/msginit
[   OK   ] msgmerge found: /usr/bin/msgmerge
[   OK   ] xgettext found: /usr/bin/xgettext

[   OK   ] gettext version: 0.17

Searching Horde modules in /pathname/lib/..
Found modules: horde, nag, admin, timeobjects, kronolith, mnemo, imp, 
turba, ingo

Extracting from horde... not changed

Cleaning up PO files for module horde...
/pathname/lib/../locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/horde.po
Skipped...

Merging translation for module horde...
Skipped...


I would have expected this to create files for me to edit, but the 
horde/locale/en directory is still empty (other than the help.xml file). 
I've also tried a similar command for imp, with similar results.

For the record, I've installed my horde and apps individually, i.e. I 
did not install the groupware or groupware webmail editions. My 
Horde/IMP is working just fine in every other way. Am I missing some of 
the source translation files, or maybe they also need to be manually 
pear-installed? Can anybody provide any pointers that might help me get 
started?


--Aaron