Re: [Audacity-translation] Creating .mo files?

[Alexandre P. <tec...@ta...>]

On Fri, 31 May 2002 15:21:48 -0700 (PDT)
Matt Brubeck <mbr...@cs...> wrote:

> On May 31, Henrik RФder Clausen wrote:
> 
> > Seems to need the files audacity.mo and wxstd.mo in the language
> > files.
> 
> The wxstd.mo file is part of the wxWindows package.  On Unix it should
> be installed in /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES (may vary with
> distribution). I don't know where it might be found in the wxMSW
> packages.
> 
> If there is no wxstd.mo for Danish, you may want to create one.  The
> wxstd catalog contains translations of standard buttons like
> Yes/No/Cancel, and common dialog boxes like the file-picker.
> 
> > I'm trying (currently under Windows) with the Catalog Manager of
> > poEdit, but when I build the catalogs, it obsoletes each and every
> > string in the .po file. Must be doing something silly...
> 
> I don't remember exactly how poEdit handles this, but I think there
> are two different commands, one to update the .po file, and a
> different command to compile/save a .mo file.  Check the menus...
> 
> Also, .mo files are the same on all platforms, so it may be easiest to
> generate the file in Linux and copy it to Windows.  Eventually we may
> want to keep .mo files in CVS, so localized Audacity can be built
> without extra tools like gettext/poEdit (which don't even exist on
> MacOS).

Well, the way it works in Linux ...

There is a gettext utility called msgfmt, which produces *.mo file from
a *.po file. If you don't use Linux, feel free to send the po file to me
and you'll get it back as *.mo :)

Alex