[i18n] Changing en phrases

[Vilius Sumskas/LNK]

> 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?

One more note to everything all others said, if you modify current 
translation files they would still be overwritten when updating Horde.

This thread should help you with that 
http://lists.horde.org/archives/horde/Week-of-Mon-20150518/054229.html

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   Vilius