Re: Problem in testing translation (gnumeric)

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:33:36PM +0200, Slobo wrote:
> Hello all gnome friends!
>
> My name is Slobodan Sredojevic and as member of Serbian GNOME Translation team 
> (http://prevod.org) I am responsible for gnumeric's "sr" translation. Have a 
> problem ...
>
> I have noticed (it is not hard to notice indeed) that a lot of strings I have 
> translated don't appear when start gnumeric to test translation. Almost 
> everything under Gnumeric preferences (Format menu item --> Gnumeric item) is 
> staying in english even I am absolutely sure I have translated these strings. 
> There is more not just that.
>
> What I did:
> 1. made translation
> 2. msgfmt -cv reports no errors (maybe there are when use -f swith but I think 
> it is not problem - I am using compendium file a lot.
> 3. cd /usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES
> 4. msgfmt -o gnumeric.mo /path/to/translated/po/file
> 5. export LANG=sr_YU in gnome-terminal
> 6. start gnumeric

The translated text for those options is merged into the gconf
schemas when they are installed.

Try adding
5.5) cd gnumeric/schemas ; make install