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[Ignas Mikalajunas <ignas.mikalajunas@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 19:23, Thomas Richter <thomas.richter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> need some hints for the translation of schooltool. As far as i know
> there are some german language strings in the schooltool packages but it
> seems me that this strings are not shown if i use the language path
> element: ++lang++de, only the Date string is translated from
> "Sunday, April 12, 2009" to "Sonntag, 12. April 2009"
>
> but no other strings. from reading the schooltool/README.txt file there
> is some procedure with "make update-translations" explained but this
> down't for for me.
>
> -----------------
>
> Translation
> -----------
>
> Translation templates live in src/schooltool/locales/*.pot, they are the
> translatable strings extracted from the source. Translation templates
> are used
> to update other translations and create new ones. You can generate them
> via
> this command:
>
>  $ make extract-translations
>
> Translation files live in src/schooltool/locales.  There is a
> directory for each language that contains a subdirectory called
> LC_MESSAGES that contains the .po files and the compiled .mo files.
> The .mo files must be present if schooltool is to use them and are
> built by the command:
>
>  $ make update-translations
>
> XXX: At present there is no easy way of compiling .mo files in the
>     tarball and the _source_ tarball does not contain them.
>
> To start a new translation, create a language directory and
> LC_MESSAGES and use src/schooltool/locales/*.pot as a templates (copy
> them to the new directory and rename them as .po).  Generate .mo files
> with msgfmt (or by calling make update-translations).
>
> -----------------
>
> May be this README is a little bit out of date?
>
> Any help is wellcome
>
> Thomas from Cologne

Hmm,

make update-translations
make compile-translations

in Schooltool checkout should work. Will add the instructions to the
dev sandbox instructions, as compiled translations are included in
eggs and you only need to compile them for checkouts.

Ignas