[mojosetup] Need translators for MojoSetup strings...

Ludwig Nussel ludwig.nussel at suse.de
Thu Jan 17 06:26:26 EST 2008


Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> > ouch! That makes it quite complicated for translators. Why don't you
> > use gettext? Even if you can't or don't want to actually use gettext
> > code in the installer binary you could still generate po[t] files
> > for the translators and then transform and merge them into whatever
> > format you need.
> 
> Generating a .po file from the Lua script would make it possible to plug 
> it into launchpad.net, I think, which might be quite beneficial in terms 
> of volunteer translation help...I'll be looking into this.

Even though xgettext doesn't understand lua and issues warnings it seems to
work fine by running 'xgettext -k_ -ktranslate scripts/*.lua'

cu
Ludwig

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