Update po-files when changing `_(value)` in code

Open KoKuToru opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

Right now I update the PO-files for all translations keywords by hand. This can't be right..

There must be a way to automatically update these.. or not ?

Oct 25 '15 16:10 KoKuToru

I think elementary does this via xgettext: Here is a CMake example: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-pantheon/pantheon-greeter/trunk/view/head:/cmake/Translations.cmake

Oct 25 '15 16:10 Teemperor

Yeah, I do generate a template.pot already, which includes all translation-keys. That cmake looks a lot cleaner than mine..

But when I change lets say _("1h later") to _("1 hour later")... all old translations for "1h later" must be updated to use "1 hour later" ...

But yeah probably not possible to update by itself...

Or should I just update the en.po ? The problem with just updating en.po would be:

correct text in en
wrong text in other translations which aren't translated
wrong text without translation files

gettext doesn't fallback to en ... if no translation is present it will display untranslated _(value)

Oct 25 '15 19:10 KoKuToru