[Scummvm-devel] Translation support was added to ScummVM

[Johannes Schickel]

On 06/19/2010 04:37 PM, Thierry Crozat wrote:
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> Ah I get it. I skipped the part where msmerge was part of gettext and therefore though that it was only needed to generate the template file :) I now see it is also needed to update the .po files.
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> But I am not sure on the idea of forcing the translators to have gettext. On MacOS X for example, if you use poEdif (which is easy to find and install), gettext is included and hidden inside the bundle. Which means this tool can be used to update the .po file from the template and create or edit the .po file. The only thing you cannot do is update scummvm.pot from the source code. On the other hand it is quite difficult to find and install a version of gettext (you need to compile it yourself or copy the one hidden in the poEdit bundle for example).
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Well I didn't add the rule for .po files... I just pointed that out ;-). 
Also in case we drop those po rules, it might be non-obvious why your 
translation stopped working properly after some scummvm.pot / source 
update...

I am not sure about OS X nowadays, but back when I used OS X (which was 
in the 10.3 days) installing such tools wasn't too hard via fink (or 
maybe even DarwinPorts, though I never used that myself).

// Johannes