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[Algis Kabaila <akabaila@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:24:05 am Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Algis Kabaila пишет:
> > 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.
> 
> Feel free to put such info in the text document and file a merge
> proposal to include that document into trunk.
> 
Shall do it. Alas, in my snail-pace :-)

Al.