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[xanad]

Packit and Uextract mods.
changed the save path for the files .mo.
now they are normally placed in LC_MESSAGES for beginners translators.

[don570]

Here's a tip for people making gettext translations of their script
in many foreign languages .

1) install script in executable place with devx file installed as well

2) install poeditor

3) set your computer to a language you know you haven't a mo file ex. Russian

4) run momanager and tick the poedit box . Find your script. and click create.

5) From menu of poedit , run 'Export' which exports a html file which is mostly
empty but has the English text that needs to be translated.

6) You can copy this text out of html file easily and use Google translate service
to translate into a language you don't know such as Chinese.
This method allows the script creator to localise his script into many languages.
quickly.

One negative I have found is the Arabic language, as clipboard of windows will reverse flow of text.
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[xanad]

Hi Don,
is an interesting way, above all for long files, but we must remember to check the translation because google sometimes translates in his own way, not the right one.

[don570]

I noticed that '/n' formatting symbol confuses Google translation service,
so they need to be removed before clicking on 'Translate' button.

Also deleting the dollar sign ($) of a variable value would help the translation
as well.

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[don570]

Also put a period or question mark after every sentence and lay
out the sentences line by line. A button label should take up just one line.

Click the translate button that google supplies
and save the Google page as html. This way you have both
the English and the foreign language side by side.

I found that Arabic is possible although tricky because of reverse flow of text.

\n becomes n\ in Arabic

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[xanad]

If, after writing many translations, you realize that you have repeatedly done something wrong, you can fix using this script from the terminal.
Create a folder containing all files .po interested, and from terminal write:

[L18L]

[xanad]

[xanad]

@L18L,
useful commands, and finally... to reverse many files mo2po?
With these commands would be interesting to make a .pet...

[L18L]

[xanad]

Wow! This is just a nice tip ..., damn did not know it ...

[xanad]

After unfmt, three files return this answer:

[xanad]

[xanad]

Further changes to strengthen the code (from an italian user):

mo2po:

[don570]

I've finished puppy units 2.1
- added more languages - now Italian , French ,Spanish , German

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I used Google translation service

Tips ----> remove \n and add lots of punctuation. Space out the
sentences line by line. Then save the Google translation page
to a HTML file to be opened up later.

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