Re: [mutlaqja (at) ku dot edu: Re: Some translation]

[Hicham Amaoui <amaoui at altern dot org>]

Hi Jasem,

> Greetings,
>
>  
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> > Oh great ;) On our cvs repository there is an ar.po which should help as a
> > basis for translation. It's under translate/misc/ar.po
> >
> >    
>
> oh okay, I'm done with the translation, KBabel is really a nice tool, there 
> are only a couple of menu items that were not translated. I will contact the 
> developer to see if they are listed in kstars.pot in the first place.
>
> I have few questions :-)
>
> 1) How do you create the initial .pot file for an application? I know you can 
> edit the .pot using KBabel, but how do you create .pot in the first place?
you use the xgettext program like this:
xgettext file1.c file2.cc file3.h && mv messages.po your_application.pot

> 2) When I "compile" a file in KBabel, it gives it an extension of .gmo, but 
> when I checked the files under /opt/kde3/share/locale/ar, I found them all 
> with an extension .mo, what's the difference? I got KStars to work in arabic 
> by simply changing the extension to .mo, but is that all?
You just rename .gmo files to .mo
.gmo files are created by the program msgfmt.

> 3) now I have a translation for KStars called kstars_ar.po, if KStars.pot was 
> changed, do I have to translate the whole thing again or is there a way to 
> merge kstars.pot and kstars_ar.po to translate only the new things that have 
> been added?
There's a program msgmerge which do what you want. You can invoke like this:
msgmerge --output-file=new_kstars.po kstars_ar.po KStars.pot
and rename new_kstars.po to kstars_ar.po

Regards,
Hicham