Merging po files

Redmar redmar at ubuntu-nl.org
Mon Nov 1 22:46:33 UTC 2010


Ask Hjorth Larsen schreef op za 30-10-2010 om 13:02 [+0200]:
> Hi Redmar

> 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).

msgmerge two times did the trick, after I removed the messages that were
commented out at the end of both .po files, maybe that was causing the
problem? 

Anyway, thanks a lot for that command, it saved me a lot of work!

Greets,
Redmar
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/attachments/20101101/98af378b/attachment.sig>


More information about the ubuntu-translators mailing list