Re: about the new .pot files

[Hicham Amaoui <amaoui at altern dot org>]

Salam,
Jasem Mutlaq wrote:

> > Salam .. First of all .. sorry for writing in English .. but I am having
> > probelms switching the Keyboard in Gnome2 ..
> > About knowing that it is updated .. You will not have to worry about that
> > .. you do your great work .. and leave the update issue for us :-) I do the
> > update often .. like every 2 weeks or so .. and make sure that the KDE and
> > Gnome Servers have our changes and translation.. and make sure that we have
> > the latest changes .. for example we moved from the KDE 3.0.3 Tree to the
> > 3.1 tree .. so we are translating for KDE 3.1 .. as for Gnome .. there
> > hadn't been many string changes since Gnome 2.0 ( which we are at now) ..
> > although there had been a Gnome 2.0.2 release changes are not that big ..
> >    
>
> Oh thanks Isam for replying, but our question was different though.
>
> imagine that I translate a .pot file and it generated a .po file, then two 
> months after that, the developer changes his/her .pot file and adds new 
> strings to it.
>
> Now, I don't have to translate the new .pot file all over again, is there a 
> way to translate only the untranslated strings? 
>
> That is, when I edit the NEW .pot file in KBabel, all the strings are 
> untranslated.. is there a way to *merge* the OLD .po file so I can only then 
> go ahead and translate the new ones?
>
> I hope I'm not confusing things.
Translations are done on the po file. So here's how to proceed:
mv file.po file.po.old
msgmerge file.po.old file.pot -o file.po
rm file.pot
And continue to work on file.po

> cheers,
> Jasem.
>  
Regards,
Hicham