Re: [SM-I18N] Maltese Translation

[Reuben S. <re...@it...>]

When I create the .mo file, is there a way to preview the translation in 
my installed version of squirrelmail (1.4.6) ?

Thanks,

Reuben


Tomas Kuliavas wrote:

>>Hello,
>>
>>
>>I would like to contibute to the squirrel mail project by translating it
>>into Maltese. Can anyone please send me the relevant info and the
>>translation strings in English for me to translate them to Maltese?
>>
>>Maltese characters include the english a-z characters with the addition
>>of:
>>
>>
>>ġĠħĦċĊżŻ (i hope these are
>>displayed correctly)
>>    
>>
>
>I think you must use iso-8859-3 or utf-8 character set in order to send
>these characters correctly.
>
>ġĠħĦċĊżŻ
>
>If you use SquirrelMail 1.4.6, open functions/i18n.php, find $languages
>entries and add new lines with Maltese translation.
>
>$languages['mt']['NAME']    = 'Maltese';
>$languages['mt']['CHARSET'] = 'utf-8';
>$languages['mt']['LOCALE']  = array('mt_MT.UTF-8','mt_MT','mt');
>$languages['mt_MT']['ALIAS'] = 'mt';
>
>If you use SquirrelMail 1.5.1, create locale/mt/setup.php file with
>---
><?php
>$languages['mt']['NAME']    = 'Maltese';
>$languages['mt']['CHARSET'] = 'utf-8';
>$languages['mt']['LOCALE']  = array('mt_MT.UTF-8','mt_MT','mt');
>$languages['mt_MT']['ALIAS'] = 'mt';
>?>
>---
>
>Then edit attached squirrelmail.po file with some gettext editor. PoEdit,
>KBabel or Gtranslator.
>
>After you translate some strings, place translated file in squirrelmail
>locale/mt/LC_MESSAGES directory and compile binary message catalog with
>command 'msgfmt -v -c -o squirrelmail.mo squirrelmail.po'
>
>See also http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/LanguageTranslation.
>
>If you have php with gettext support, you will need mt_MT.UTF-8 system
>locale. PHP installation should contain mbstring extension.
>
>squirrelmail.po file contains more than 1100 strings. If you want make
>translation easier, I can provide translation files for core squirrelmail
>scripts and then gradually increase number of strings by adding core
>plugin strings.
>
>Translated file should be posted on this mailing list.
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