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[Algis Kabaila <akabaila@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:28:39 am Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Algis Kabaila пишет:
> > Alexander,
> >
> > I've been away from all Launchpad activities for a while because of ill
> > health.  I would now like to return to it, though at even a slower
> > pace... My problem is that I have forgotten some really elementary stuff
> > that most people know in their sleep.  Can you help me to recover:
> >
> > How do I run a translated explorer from the command line.  I think there
> > are simple command line instructions to specify any language that has
> > been translated and stored in a po file to become the language of the
> > program. For instance, if I want to have Russian text shown in the
> > Explorer, what commands would I need to specify? Similarly, I will want
> > to have Lithuanian commands shown by the Explorer, what commands do I
> > issue to achieve that?
> 
> If you already have translations compiled to binary MO format you need
> only change the LANGUAGE environment variable and simply start explorer.
> So e.g. on Linux it would be (for Russian):
> 
> LANGUAGE=ru bzr explorer
> 
> or for Lithuanian:
> 
> LANGUAGE=lt bzr explorer
> 
> If you want to setup some language for some time you can set the
> environment variable to required value as:
> 
> export LANGUAGE=lt
> 
> and then invoke explorer:
> 
> bzr explorer
> 
> If you're working on the translations and want to test new translated
> strings on the fly you have to convert text PO files with translations
> to binary MO files first. This could be done with the following command
> (run it from explorer working tree root):
> 
> python setup.py build_mo
> 
> And then you can run bzr explorer with new translations.
> 
> HTH
> Alexander
> 
Thank you, Alexander!  Just the sort of information that I needed to get me 
moving (at snail pace) again.

Greatly appreciated!

OldAl.