Greets,
The "Essential Modules" for Amharic have reached the 100% translation level. We would like to refine the translations before going further onto translating other packages. This means testing the translations with their running applications.
How is this done? I've searched around and find the question asked a lot but no answers seem to be out there. Has anyone written a "HOWTO" or some other helpful documentation? I'm willing to write one if not but will need some guidance to get started. Any help appreciated.
thanks,
/Daniel
Daniel Yacob wrote:
How is this done? I've searched around and find the question asked a lot but no answers seem to be out there. Has anyone written a "HOWTO" or some other helpful documentation? I'm willing to write one if not but will need some guidance to get started. Any help appreciated.
Here's a small translation of a guide provided by David Barzilay on an e-mail for the pt_BR team:
1. close all instances of the programs that use the po file 2. go to the directory that contains the file and then run : "msgfmt your_locale.po -o <package_name>.mo" 3. make a backup copy of the file "/usr/share/locale/your_locale/LC_MESSAGES/<package_name>.mo" 4. cp <package_name>.mo /usr/share/locale/your_locale/LC_MESSAGES/. 5. run the program and your translation will be there
I've done those steps when testing a few of the translations for FC4 on my FC3.. Some strings surelly will be missing , so the ideal option is using FC4T3 to test the translations. In my case , I upgraded some programs from rawhide to test them (and some of them couldnt be tested , since the dependency chain was too big).
-- Pedro Macedo
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