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Astrid & Launchpad Translation

Asked by Bernd Schlapsi

Could you please explain the workflow you use with the Astrid strings/arrays files and the Lauchpad translation service?
How do you transform the Android translation files into po or mo files which are needed for launchpad?

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Tim Su (tim-todoroo) said : 		#1

Sure.

Launchpad automatically detects .pot files from Astrid's main branch. When translators make translations, Launchpad can export these as .po files.

Thus, we need a tool to turn strings/arrays.xml into .po files, and another tool to turn .pot files back into strings/arrays.xml. This is what the scripts in bin/ do. My workflow is usually:

bin/androidxml2po -e # creates .pot file from xml file in translations/ folder
bzr ci

# download .pot files to translations/ folder
bin/androidxml2po -i
bzr diff # i usually do a visual inspection to make sure everything went well
bzr ci

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