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

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-page... 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