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[andré <andre99b@xxxxxxxx>]

John Maloney a écrit :
> Hi, André.
>
> Thanks for your help. Here's some background on how Scratch uses .po 
> files.
>
> Scratch can only read .po files, not .mo files. We did that partly so 
> that anyone could edit or add translations with just a simple text 
> editor, even if they knew nothing about about the gettext system, and 
> partly to keep things as simple as possible.
>
> Incidentally, space for the translation files is not really an issue. 
> The .po files are tiny compared to the Scratch media and sample 
> projects folders. As I understand it, the real motivation for using 
> .mo files in many applications is that they are faster to read, since 
> they are pre-parsed. But the Scratch .po file parser is quite fast, so 
> that's not an issue.
>
> So you can see why we don't need (and couldn't even use) .mo files. 
> But thanks for your offer!
>
>     -- John
Hi John

Makes sense.
Looking over my system, I see that the .mo files are mostly used by apps 
with a lot more translated text than Scratch.  My only concern was 
efficiency; even the largest apps use relatively little space.

-André