[Po4a-devel] Introduction, and a polite request for help

[daniel cabrera]

On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 22:45 +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> (I do not know whether you subscribed, thus Cc: you)
> 
> In order to produce meaningful PO files, you have to run
> po4a-gettextize with an English file and its translation.  I
> downloaded man-pages-es 1.55 from
> http://www.ditec.um.es/~piernas/manpages-es/.
> I did not find man-pages 1.55 (do you have a copy?), but found 1.56 here:
>   http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/PLD/dists/ra/updates/general/SRPMS/man-pages-1.56-1.src.html
> After extracting those tarballs, my directory contains:
>     man-pages-1.56  man-pages-es-1.55
> Then
>   $ po4a-gettextize -f man -m man-pages-1.56/man2/accept.2 \
>     -l man-pages-es-1.55/man2/accept.2 -L UTF-8 -p accept.2-es-ES.po
> works just fine.  Some English manual pages contain accented letters,
> you will then have to specify its encoding with the -M flag.
> 
> One more point: some manual pages have been removed (for instance most
> pages under section 1), do not lose time converting them to PO files.
> (But beware that some pages have been moved into another section)
> 
> > My second problem is to be able to convert more than a file at once, but
> > that can wait :-)
> 
> Here we go: WARNING: These commands remove files after converting them
> to PO files!!!
> Make sure to use a VCS or work on a copy.
> 
>   $ for f in man-pages-es-1.55/man*/*.?; do
>       echo Processing $f;
>       po4a-gettextize -f man \
>             -m man-pages-1.56${f#man-pages-es-1.55} \
>             -l $f -L UTF-8 -p $f.po 2>/dev/null && rm -f $f;
>       done
> 
>    $ git ls-files --deleted | wc -l
>    1114
>    $ git ls-files man-pages-es-1.55/man? | wc -l
>    1303
> 
> Thus po4a-gettextize did successfully convert 1114 files from 1303.
> You will have to manually check failing pages; this is pretty boring,
> but you have to do that task only once.
> 
> Denis


Denis, thank you very much for your explanation. It took me on the right
track and now it's just a matter of time before we can update all those
man pages.
Best regards, Daniel.
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