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

[Alexandre Saunier]

demoCw3.it.po is regenerated when executing po2mo.php. That is why your 
modifications are not taken into account: your modified demoCW3.it.po 
file is replaced by a new one.

Concerning the client-side strings, you may only edit 
cartoweb3/po/client.it.po (general strings) and 
cartoweb3/projects/demoCW3/po/client.it.po (project-specific strings).

Those 2 files (plus the server ones) are then merged by po2mo.php into 
demoCW3.it.po, the latter being finally compiled as 
cartoweb3/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/demoCW3.mo.

Giorgio Plazzotta wrote:
> than x alexandre
> i was almost managing it but i had to download some missing .dll to 
> make  it work
> just in this moment i have still a strange problem
> when i launch po2mp.pho the merge action between democw3.it.po and 
> client.it.po cancel the modification i did in the democw3.it.po file
> for example
> 
> #: projects/demoCW3/templates/cartoclient.tpl
> msgid "Search"
> msgstr ""
> 
> i change the msgstr to the italian value but it return to ""
> do u know why?
> Giorgio
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandre Saunier" 
> <alexandre.saunier at camptocamp.com>
> To: "Giorgio Plazzotta" <plazzotta at tiscalinet.it>
> Cc: <cartoweb-users at lists.maptools.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cartoweb-users] Trying to create a new language translation
> 
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> indeed you have to write new po files named client.it.po, 
>> server.it.po, etc. Those files are text files containing translations. 
>> You may use the client.po, server.po files as templates (the 
>> translated strings are empty) and copy/rename into client.it.po,...
>>
>> Note that you'll have to translate strings both in cartoweb3/po 
>> (common strings) and in cartoweb3/projects/demoCW3/po (strings 
>> dedicated to the demoCW3 project) or in your own projects.
>>
>> po2mop.php then merge the .po files and compile the gettext binary 
>> dictionaries (.mo files).
>>
>> Giorgio Plazzotta wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Most of the scripts work with both Linux and Windows. They cannot be 
>> launched in your web browser. I've just added a note about that in the 
>> manual.
>> Tip: only files located within htdocs/ directories (web directories) 
>> may be called in a web browser. Everything else is either called 
>> internaly by the webserver or in command line prompts.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> See Oliver's comments in a previous mail.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> That would be great! ;)
>>
>> AS
>>
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