[orca-list] Trying to get some Orca localizations updated

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

I'm currently working on the F123 team to try to create and update some 
.po translation files for various packages, including Orca. One of the 
focuses of this localization and translation effort is Arabic. I must 
admit here that I know less about the way GNU gettext works than I would 
like, but I have the basics pretty much down, at least for initially 
generating a .pot file from sources and .po files from the .pot file to 
create new language translations, and have done this quite successfully 
for some much smaller projects and scripts.


My task for this project is to make a .po file ready for translation and 
send it to be translated. In this specific case, I need the ar.po file 
from Orca, and I need to send it for the translation to be updated. I 
have the 3.28 release of Orca checked out, and I do see that we have an 
ar.po file. The problem is that it shows a POT-Creation-Date in 2012, 
but a PO-Revision-Date in 2010, two years earlier. The file I have is 
not even new enough to translate "Screen reader on" and "Screen reader 
preferences," as it still has source strings for "Welcome to Orca" and 
"Orca preferences." The thing is that I want to recycle as much prior 
work as possible to make it easier for our Arabic translator, since I 
can see 5 prior translators, and it's always better not to redo what has 
already been done if possible. Can anyone tell me what I can do to 
update the source strings, but keep the older strings that still work 
without destroying the whole file and starting from scratch? Thanks very 
much for any help.

~Kyle