l10n@2.0: generating PO files from POT files
For translating OpenOffice.org we are generating POT files. See
POT files from milestones
(FIXME: this will be mirrored to *.openoffice.org/...).
How to get PO files from them? Some people prefer to use
kbabel or other tools. But I simply do not believe
them ;-)
I have prepared script that can be used to generate PO files from the above mentioned POT files. So
let's start with it:
#!/bin/bash
#
# This script can be used to generate PO files from OpenOffice.org POT
# files.
#
# Compendium generated from old PO files
COMPENDIUM=~/.translations/COMPENDIUM.po
# If you do not have compendium or you want to start from scratch ;-)
# COMPENDIUM=/dev/null
rm -rf PO
for POT in `find POT -type f`
do
PO=`echo $POT|sed 's#POT#PO#'|sed 's#.pot#.po#'`
echo $PO
# Create directory for new PO file
mkdir -p `dirname $PO`
msginit --no-translator -i $POT -o $PO
msgmerge --backup=off -w 200 -U --compendium=$COMPENDIUM $PO $POT
done |
It is pretty simple. It expects POT files unpacked in the
POT directory and will remove
and create
PO directory with clean PO files from them. If you already have a database
of translated strings in the form of PO file, you can define
COMPENDIUM variable to
point to it. If you define it, PO files will be initiated with already existing translations.
The next entry (it will be written tomorrow, for sure!) will be about generating GSI/SDF file from
translated PO files. So stay tuned, because OpenOffice.org project can accept submissions of
translations in the GSI/SDF format only (which you must use for your localized builds anyway).
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