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. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Ask Hjorth Larsen <<a href="mailto:asklarsen@gmail.com">asklarsen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Redmar <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Redmar <<a href="mailto:redmar@ubuntu-nl.org">redmar@ubuntu-nl.org</a>> 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 </div></div>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 <a href="mailto:ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators</a> </blockquote></div> -- Jonathan Aquilina