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Feature #209

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Feature #208: Better use of i18n tool features

Manage desktop/directory files in PO files

Added by Jean-Michel Philippe almost 13 years ago. Updated almost 13 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Jean-Michel Philippe
Category:
Localization
Target version:
2011-05 (Gondwana)
Start date:
05/30/2011
Due date:
06/02/2011
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
1:00 h
Spent time:
1:00 h

Description

As indicated in the man pages, it seems that intltool-prepare is able to handle *.desktop and *.directory files:

“For software packages that include some specific type of translatable files (such as .desktop and .soundlist), before they make use of intltool, translators have to dig through them one by one, and add their localization into each file. This process is error prone, since translators may include typing errors, or add their localization in wrong encoding. Besides, translators may not always know other files (beside .po files) are translatable.

intltool avoids all the problems above by extracting strings inside those translatable files into po template (.pot) file. All translators need to care about is just translating po files. Afterwards, intltool-merge(8) will merge localized strings into those files.“

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