Redmar if im not mistaken all translations are usually done upstream. that way you are helping the particular project as a whole, and not just down stream in ubuntu.
David feel free to correct me if im wrong on this. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Ask Hjorth Larsen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Redmar > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Redmar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Translators, > > > > I have recently translated xscreensaver to Dutch in Launchpad and would > > like to submit my translations upstream. The upstream version of > > xscreensaver contains more strings than the one in Launchpad, and is > > partly translated. > > What I would like to do is the following: Merge the Launchpad (shorter) > > po file into the upstream po file, such that translations form the > > Launchpad po file ALWAYS replace translations done in the upstream po > > file. > > > > I found on the web that 'msgcat' should be able to do this, but after > > reading the man and experimenting I have not been able to make this > > happen. > > > > msgcat from_LaunchPad.po upstream.po -o output.po --use-first > > > > does use the translations from LP over those upstream, but the > > resulting .po file has ~1000 extra strings compared to the bigger input > > file. > > > > > > If someone could tell me how I can combine these two po files I would be > > very happy. > > > > Greetings, > > Redmar > > > > -- > > Ubuntu Dutch Translators > > Try: > > msgmerge from_LaunchPad.po upstream.po -o output.po > > msgmerge takes translations from one file and combines them with the > english messages in the other. I have sometimes seen that also this > produces files with too many messages in them (which I don't > understand), but after msgmerging a second time into the newly created > one, it had only those strings it was supposed to (now that I mention > it, if anyone knows why that happens, please do chime in). > > Regards > Ask > > -- > ubuntu-translators mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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