Ok guys,
I have been able to avoid using any non standard ooo tool up to now.
If you think the PO files are ok, i will produce them for 3.2.
I spent 3 days in july trying to build and run the TT stuff, and was not happy.
Cannot we just stick to the GNU gettext standard here?
thanks,
mike

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Martin Srebotnjak <mi...@filmsi.net> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> you can do that simply by making a compendium file from all existing
> translations in old po files and migrating it to the new po's. You
> need gettext and Translation Toolkit
> (http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/) and the new pot files.
>
> Here are sample commands (I am not sure I have the right language code
> in the second one):
>
> A) first create a compendium file (where OLD_PO_FILES is a folder with
> old po files):
>
> pocompendium compendium.po -d OLD_PO_FILES
>
> B) to migrate existing translation and the compendium.po file into
> latest version (where NEW_PO_FILES is the folder where the new po
> files will be saved, and NEW_POT_FILES is the folder with the 3.2 pot
> files):
>
> pomigrate2.sh -C=compendium.po -F --locale sq-AL --no-wrap
> OLD_PO_FILES NEW_PO_FILES NEW_POT_FILES
>
> Scripts pomigrate2.sh and pocompendium are a part of Translation
> Toolkit mentioned above.
>
> You could maybe go directly from your old 2.x files to 3.2, but I
> really cannot predict the result :)
>
> Of course, after this there would be some (from 3.1 to 3.2 a few
> thousand) or many (from 2.x maybe many thousands?) fuzzy translations
> and someone from the Albanian team should go through them manually.
>
> Hope this helps,
> m.
>
> 2009/10/7 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com>:
>> Can you at least tell me if these files are ok before I start the work on 
>> 3.2?
>> Also, do you not have a way to upgrade the 3.1 to 3.2?
>> thanks,
>> mike
>
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