Locales

[Christian Stimming]

Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008 17:10 schrieb Albert Lash:
> I've noticed a few emails on the list about locales and translations
> lately, so I thought it might make sense to see if PBooks and GnuCash
> could share some translation docs. 

I have no idea what PBooks is.

> I looked in the GnuCash source and 
> found some XML files (nice! - that's how PBooks is handling i18n so
> far), 

Those XML files are not the place where translations are created or edited, 
they are rather generated from the single po file which --

> and then found some .po files. I also found the txt-to-pot.sh 
> file, but its  years old - still used? Is GnuCash sticking with .po /
> .pot files or are there plans to convert them to XML at some point in
> the future?

The po files are the one and only method that is used in GnuCash to handle 
translations, as all translations are managed by gettext. You should read the 
gettext documentation - it is installed on any Linux/Unix system. Also, I'd 
recommend http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation .

Christian


>
> I'm also happy to report that I finally found the postgres SQL files
> from Klaus Dahlke in contrib, so I'm planning to finally get to make a
> real comparison of the GnuCash data model with the one I came up with
> for PBooks (derived from the standard accounting equation and inspired
> by XBRL).
>
> - Albert