Re: Using debian/po and intltool-merge for translating the package descriptions

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:08:00PM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> (CC:ed to grisu too since it's related to the ddtp)
> 
> Just to see if it worked, I added 'control' to anna's po/POTFILES.in and
> changed
> 
> Description: Load installer modules
> 
> to
> 
> _Description: Load installer modules
> 
> yup, debconf-updatepo picks up the package description, and when I
> translated it into Swedish and ran
> 
> intltool-merge -u -r po control /tmp/test-control
> 
> I did get a nice
> 
> Description-sv: Ladda installationsmoduler
> 
> (since I used /usr/bin/intltool-merge I got -sv instead of -sv.UTF-8,
> either way works for me, libd-i just has to parse it correctly)

You could run po2debconf instead, which is essentially a wrapper script
around intltool-merge.

> Is this something we want to use? It's really nice to have everything in
> the same po file, and nice for translators that rather work in their
> favourite character set instead of utf-8.

I concur.
Are localized fields harmless in control files?

Denis