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diff --git a/doc/translating.txt b/doc/translating.txt
index dee35a30d37b5e15b1ecc9c8965baf946ce94e5a..9320b6c1efebb1a7e5b36617168f0e3d80d3f5cf 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/translating.txt
+++ b/doc/translating.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ the repository.
 -------------------------
 
 a) You must have gettext installed. If it is not installed you can
 -------------------------
 
 a) You must have gettext installed. If it is not installed you can

-   download the soources from
+   download the sources from

    <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/>.
 
 b) Find the language code for the language you are going to translate
    <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/>.
 
 b) Find the language code for the language you are going to translate


@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ b) Find the language code for the language you are going to translate
    there is a 2 letter code for the language, use this.
 
    Create a directory squirrelmail/locale/language_code/LC_MESSAGES/.
    there is a 2 letter code for the language, use this.
 
    Create a directory squirrelmail/locale/language_code/LC_MESSAGES/.

-   Copy squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail.po into this directory. This is the
-   file that is going to be translated.
+   Copy squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail.pot into this directory and rename 
+   it to squirrelmail.po. This is the file that is going to be translated.

 
 

-c) To translate the actual strings fill inn the msgstr after each
-   msgid with the appropiate translation. There are a few tools which
-   kan make this job a bit easier at
-   <URL:http://i18n.kde.org/translation-howto/gui-specialized-apps.html>.
+c) To translate the actual strings fill in the msgstr after each
+   msgid with the appropriate translation. There are a few tools which
+   can make this job a bit easier at
+   <URL:http://i18n.kde.org/translation-howto/specialized-programs.html#gui-tools>.

 
    Convert the translated squirrelmail.po into a binary file by
    running the command "msgfmt -o squirrelmail.mo squirrelmail.po" in
 
    Convert the translated squirrelmail.po into a binary file by
    running the command "msgfmt -o squirrelmail.mo squirrelmail.po" in


@@ -39,35 +39,35 @@ the Unicode consortium.
 2. Maintaining translations
 ---------------------------
 
 2. Maintaining translations
 ---------------------------
 

-the text strings in the program will change over time. This means that
-strings that are already translated is no longer used and new strings
-are added. Therefore it is neccessary to maintain the translations.
+The text strings in the program will change over time. This means that
+strings that are already translated are no longer used and new strings
+are added. Therefore it is necessary to maintain the translations.

 
 a) There should always be an updated template containing all strings
 
 a) There should always be an updated template containing all strings

-   in SquirrelMail in squirrelmail/squirrelmail.po. To merge all new
+   in SquirrelMail in squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail.pot. To merge all new

    strings in this file into an existing translation run the command
 
 msgmerge squirrelmail/locale/language/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po \
    strings in this file into an existing translation run the command
 
 msgmerge squirrelmail/locale/language/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po \

-squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail.po > \
+squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail.pot > \

 squirrelmail/locale/language/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po.new
 
    This should keep all strings that are unchanged and comment out all
    strings that are no longer in use. You might want to make a copy
    before doing this.
 
 squirrelmail/locale/language/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po.new
 
    This should keep all strings that are unchanged and comment out all
    strings that are no longer in use. You might want to make a copy
    before doing this.
 

-b) Rung msgfmt again to create a new binary file.
+SquirrelMail contains po/mergepo script that can merge strings without need
+to write that complex msgmerge command. Just put your translation name as 
+option.
+
+b) Run msgfmt again to create a new binary file.

 
 
 3. Updating the template
 ------------------------
 
 
 
 3. Updating the template
 ------------------------
 

-This script comes from Serek:
+SquirrelMail provides po/xgetpo script that extracts all the required 
+strings and updates po/squirrelmail.pot file.
+

 
 

-#!/bin/bash
-xgettext --keyword=_ -keyword=N_ \
-  --default-domain=squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail \
-  -C squirrelmail/src/*.php
-xgettext --keyword=_ -keyword=N_ \
-  --default-domain=squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail \
-  -C -j squirrelmail/functions/*.php

 
 

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