When I downloaded KDE3 sources and compiled it I was very disappointed that I have had to compile all these po files , and as you know msgfmt *.po -o *.mo will NOT work so I wrote this tiny script to automate the process , just give it the root dir of kde PO files and the two letters code of the language and it will compile the PO files in their proper places in $KDEDIR/share/locale and also you can run this script at the root directory of PO files just by typing its name (./po2mo) and it will do everything for you it's attached because it's really small so have fun :-)
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