[i18n] Changing en phrases

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Thu Feb 11 19:44:49 UTC 2016


Zitat von Aaron Paetznick <aaronp at critd.com>:

> Thanks for this, and also thanks to Jens and Jan. I decided that  
> even though it could get overwritten with a future update, that I  
> will continue to work with the *.po locale files and just create a  
> procedure for re-changing the phrases if they get overwritten in the  
> future. I feel like I'm getting closer, but it's still not working  
> yet. Here's what I've done so far:
>
> php --no-php-ini /usr/local/bin/horde-translation init  
> --module="imp" --locale="en_US"
> vi imp/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/imp.po
> php --no-php-ini /usr/local/bin/horde-translation update  
> --module="imp" --locale="en_US"
>
>
> The new phrase is still not showing. Everything seems to run fine,  
> except I get this error with both the init and update:
>
> /usr/bin/msgmerge: error while opening  
> "/pathname/lib/../locale/compendium.po" for reading: No such file or  
> directory
>
>
> Am I still missing a step?

Yes, the command to compile the translation is "make", not "update".

> FYI I just confirmed that en_US is my default language in my  
> config/nls.local.php file, and the user I'm testing with is set to  
> use en_US.
>
>
> --Aaron
>
>
> On 2/10/2016 3:03 AM, Vilius Sumskas/LNK wrote:
>>> 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
>>



-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/



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