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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maha,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> PO files are special formated txt
files. You can read about the specific format at:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext_9.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext_9.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The most important thin when you edit the files is
the encoding. Ensure that UTF8 is the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>encoding used. Also the line feed should not be DOS
format line feed. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So basically you can have the header part read all
at once this includes all the stuff</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>about copyright and other comments.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To give you insight about why PO files are special.
Basically all programs extract strings</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>used within the program from that file. Depending
on your languag, it will be able to pick</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>up the right translation. PO files is where the
translators contribute translaiton, then final</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>format of the translation are the MO files. MO
files get compiled with the final packaging,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hence you never see the PO file in a final
package. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>Sherif</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Ok.. got another question.. what's the difference between .txt and .po ..
sure there is a difference.. but am thinking about how to deal parse and
rebuild PO file from java code.. we need to read po file each to update
the db..so we need to do some parsing work and understand how to read it..the
second time i need to deal with PO file when am populating the data backward
from the db into the files; modify the already existing file or create a new
one.. what if i did treat it as a text file that am looking for say "daemon"
take it with its translation, know if it's translation is fuzzy or not.. and
then populate the data into db table. vice verse.. i want to create or
modify PO file.. I'll be looking for a keywords and change the text or a value
of a header.. that's it!! i guess so :)) </DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We have 3 significant data in PO file:</DIV>
<DIV> 1- The original string and its translation; search on
<FONT size=2><STRONG>msgid</STRONG>&<FONT
size=2><STRONG>msgstr</STRONG> keywords</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> 2- Knowing whether or not the string is fuzzy; by
searching on this "<FONT size=2><STRONG>#, fuzzy</STRONG></FONT>" in the
header of the current string am parsing on..</DIV>
<DIV> 3- The file headers.. for example..at the top of samba
file you will see this section and it's existing in each po file:</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<P># translation of system-config-samba.po to Arabic</P>
<P># This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE
package.</P>
<P># Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER.</P>
<P><FONT color=#009900><STRONG># Ossama M. Khayat <<A
href="mailto:okhayat@yahoo.com">okhayat@yahoo.com</A>>,
2004.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#009900><STRONG># Maha Helwa <<A
href="mailto:mahahelwa@gmx.net">mahahelwa@gmx.net</A>>,
2004.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#009900><STRONG># Sherif Abdelgawad <<A
href="mailto:sherif@redhat.com">sherif@redhat.com</A>>,
2004.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#009900><STRONG># Munzir Taha <<A
href="mailto:munzirtaha@newhorizons.com.sa">munzirtaha@newhorizons.com.sa</A>>,
2004</STRONG></FONT>.</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>msgid ""</P>
<P>msgstr ""</P>
<P>"Project-Id-Version: system-config-samba\n"</P>
<P>"POT-Creation-Date: 2005-03-09 15:51+0100\n"</P>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=#990000>"PO-Revision-Date: 2005-04-10
02:31-0800\n"</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=#990000>"Last-Translator: maha <<A
href="mailto:mahahelwa@gmx.net">mahahelwa@gmx.net</A>>\n"</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P>"Language-Team: Arabic <<A
href="mailto:fedora-trans-ar@redhat.com">fedora-trans-ar@redhat.com</A>>\n"</P>
<P>"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"</P>
<P>"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"</P>
<P>"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"</P>
<P> </P>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Only 3 values that are changeable by the time of checkin any
PO file:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>> Add the name of the contributor at the end of
contributors list and update the value of "last translator" tag or whatever
it's called ..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>></FONT><FONT size=2> Date of Revision.. i don't
think every checkin.. when this value is changed?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So i want to know why i should not treat any PO file just as a
normal text file? is it about the encoding? well am not sure but i guess it
can be handled from the java side!! decided to read/write any part of PO
file with certain encoding "utf-8"? </DIV>
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<DIV>Yareet had yerod.. sherif..what do think?! shall i do it in this way?!
</DIV>
<DIV>FYI.. i did not read the source of kbabel yet.. i get shocked when i
tried to look for a piece of code that reads the strings from PO file..which
is doing what?! i get lost and frustrated after this try.. i don't
remember C.. what a shame!! </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Maha.</DIV>
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