On Jun 7, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
> I guess I'm a bit thick headed today, but I'm struggling with your
> suggestion. I don't see how your suggestion allows me to
> programmatically associate an original msgid with the updated value of a
> msgid if I don't have a unique key embedded in my msgid's that stays the
> same across edits.
OK, let's assume that you have an existing translation in several
languages, and you want to modify the English (original) language version. The
msgid value in the .po file is the unique identifier that links the translated
texts, right?
To give an example, let's assume the original English was "This is the
original". In your translation file for a given language, there will be an
entry that looks like:
msgid "This is the original"
msgstr "kdsj jsh fsd hfgidsgiusdo hgsdh ghsd"
Now you want to edit the original without losing the translations,
right? What I'm suggesting is (in Fox terms) parsing the .po files into a
cursors, with 'msgid' and 'msgstr' columns. Locate the record you want to
change, and do
origid = "This is the original"
newid = "This is NOT the original"
select lang_en
replace msgid with newid for msgid = origid
select lang_es
replace msgid with newid for msgid = origid
writeCursorToPoFile()
compilePoToMo()
select lang_de
replace msgid with newid for msgid = origid
writeCursorToPoFile()
compilePoToMo()
... etc.
Now all your .po files are keyed to the new English text. Your
translations will not be updated, but the original translation is still linked
to the new English text.
-- Ed Leafe
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