Re: Planner doc translation with xml2po

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Kurt Maute wrote:
> Hi Folks,

Hi,

> I finally got around to trying out xml2po to see if we can use it to
> help manage doc translations for Planner, and it looks quite promising.
> Thanks for putting it together, Danilo!
>
> I was able to take a translated version of the Planner user guide
> v1.5.2, create .pot files for both it and the translation, then cut and
> paste to derive the planner-1.5.2-es.po file.  Then after updating the
> planner.xml to v0.13 (we changed the version # on this release to match
> the planner release #, which is why it looks odd), I created a new
> planner.pot file and ran the following:
>
> msgmerge -o planner-0.13-es.po planner-1.5.2-es.po planner.pot
>
> When I do this, I get lots of messages:
>
> msgmerge: invalid multibyte sequence

The es po file is probably not UTF-8, so it should be converted.

Hm, I don't think we should put the user guide into the regular po 
files, that would make it a lot harder to keep the regular translations 
up to date and get them fully translated. What do other projects do with 
regards to translated user guides?

/Richard

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