[Cartoweb-users] Trying to create a new language translation

[oliver]

Hi Giorgio,

i think you need to add the path to the gettext binaries in windows
environment variables.
read
http://www.cartoweb.org/doc_head/docbook/xhtml/user.install.html#user.instal
l.win32 point 1.1.4.3.1 note 1 and 2

Regards,
Oliver Christen



> Hello,
> I am going on with Cartoweb also thanx the good guide and the help of
people
> of the list.
> Now the next step for me was trying to create or get an italian version of
> the demo. Let's say to start from the well done democw3 sample. I am
trying
> to do this in Windows Xp.
> I checked the php.ini file and both php_gettext.dll and php_curl.dll
> extensions are loaded therefore i suppose gettext should be available.
> I cannot use the testgettext.php program cause it is made for Linux.
> I know that to modify the existing translation files  i have to edit or
> create new .po files such as client.en.po or a new client.it.po and they
are
> in the projects/democw3/po folder. I didn't study the contents of these
.po
> files but i think that they contain the reference to most of the text to
be
> translated inside the application.
>
> The manual then say to launch the php scripts that are contained in the
> /scripts folder. It's not specified unix or windows so i suppose that
being
> php files they will work on both.
> I tried to launch po2mp.php or server2pot.php in order to recreate the .MO
> files. But how? I tried both calling those files from the web browser and
> also from the dos command prompt, the manual doesn't say how to do.
> >From the browser nothing happens but if i launch those commands from the
> command prompt i get these errors:
> "xgettext" is not recongnized as an internal or external command, an
> exacutable program or a batch file. and later the same for msmerge.
>
> Why do i get this error, what is wrong? can u give me suggestions to
> understand better the things to do in order to compile new .mo files?
>
> Thanx
> Giorgio
>
> ps. of course if i will be able to produce compiled files in italian and
> there can be helpful for the prject manager i will be glad to send them.
>
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