[Fedora-trans-ar] .PO &.txt?.. what makes PO Very Special!!

[Maha Helwa]

Ok.. got another question.. what's the difference between .txt and .po .. 
sure there is a difference.. but am thinking about how to deal parse and 
rebuild PO file from java code.. we need to read po file each to update the 
db..so we need to do some parsing work and understand how to read it..the 
second time i need to deal with PO file when am populating the data backward 
from the db into the files; modify the already existing file or create a new 
one.. what if i did treat it as a text file that am looking for say "daemon" 
take it with its translation, know if it's translation is fuzzy or not.. and 
then populate the data into db table. vice verse.. i want to create or 
modify PO file.. I'll be looking for a keywords and change the text or a 
value of a header.. that's it!! i guess so :))
  We have 3 significant data in PO file:
 1- The original string and its translation; search on *msgid*&*msgstr*keywords
 2- Knowing whether or not the string is fuzzy; by searching on this "*#, 
fuzzy*" in the header of the current string am parsing on..
 3- The file headers.. for example..at the top of samba file you will see 
this section and it's existing in each po file:
  
# translation of system-config-samba.po to Arabic

# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.

# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER.

*# Ossama M. Khayat <okhayat at yahoo.com>, 2004.*

*# Maha Helwa <mahahelwa at gmx.net>, 2004.*

*# Sherif Abdelgawad <sherif at redhat.com>, 2004.*

*# Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons.com.sa>, 2004*.

#

msgid ""

msgstr ""

"Project-Id-Version: system-config-samba\n"

"POT-Creation-Date: 2005-03-09 15:51+0100\n"

*"PO-Revision-Date: 2005-04-10 02:31-0800\n"*

*"Last-Translator: maha <mahahelwa at gmx.net>\n"*

"Language-Team: Arabic <fedora-trans-ar at redhat.com>\n"

"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

 Only 3 values that are changeable by the time of checkin any PO file:
> Add the name of the contributor at the end of contributors list and update 
the value of "last translator" tag or whatever it's called ..
> Date of Revision.. i don't think every checkin.. when this value is 
changed?
 So i want to know why i should not treat any PO file just as a normal text 
file? is it about the encoding? well am not sure but i guess it can be 
handled from the java side!! decided to read/write any part of PO file with 
certain encoding "utf-8"?
  Yareet had yerod.. sherif..what do think?! shall i do it in this way?! 
FYI.. i did not read the source of kbabel yet.. i get shocked when i tried 
to look for a piece of code that reads the strings from PO file..which is 
doing what?! i get lost and frustrated after this try.. i don't remember C.. 
what a shame!!
 Maha.
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