Re: Using POT files -- (PO Template)

[Davi Leal]

Antenore Gatta wrote:
> Any advices? Links?

The goal is to define a more 'automatic' procedure to update and synchronize 
the PO files. Now we are doing it by hand, with the 'diff' command.

IMHO forcing us to work with a POT file will do our work easier only if it 
make the synchronization process easier. Else we will have to update one more 
file (the POT) by hand.



The 'msgcmp' command compares message catalog and template
The 'msgmerge' command seems not take care of adding the comments.

See man pages:

  msgattrib  Attribute matching and manipulation on message catalog
  msgcat     Combines several message catalogs
  msgcmp     Compare message catalog and template
  msgcomm    Match two message catalogs
  msgconv    Character set conversion for message catalog
  msgen      Create English message catalog
  msgexec    Process translations of message catalog
  msgfilter  Edit translations of message catalog
  msgfmt     Compile message catalog to binary format
  msggrep    Pattern matching on message catalog
  msginit    Initialize a message catalog
  msgmerge   Merge message catalog and template
  msgunfmt   Uncompile message catalog from binary format
  msguniq    Unify duplicate translations in message catalog



References:
 http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Template

POT example: 
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/trunk/po/wesnoth/wesnoth.pot?view=markup
 Ref. from: http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/GettextForTranslators


Note: We can not add every msgid reference to the source code due to we do not 
get the PO or POT file automatically, due to the 'xgettext' command is not 
able to process the Smarty templates we are using.


I attach POT files which I have got setting empty the msgid's:
  messages.pot
  nationalities.pot


I have being playing with some commands:

 msgcmp messages.po messages.pot


You could try to use msgmerge to add/delete/update the msgid's of the Italian 
PO file:

 msgmerge --no-wrap --output-file=messages.updated.po messages.po messages.pot

Maybe we will have to edit by hand the result of that command to get the final 
desired result.


We can do this 'experiment' to see if it will do our work easier. We could use 
what we learn now when we do the next translations update.

messages.pot
Description: application/gettext

nationalities.pot
Description: application/gettext