One thing struck me when looking at the "po" folder of Moksha at GitHub:
https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha/tree/master/po

Namely that there is no vanilla .POT file in that folder....

Which means that if there's no .po file with your current language at the GitHub source of Moksha, you have no alternative but to pick a .po file of another foreign language and replace its foreign translations by translations in your own language. And then creating it with the proper name.

Or am I missing something?

What I mean is a vanilla .POT file without any existing translation at all, like this one in the GitHub source for Terminology:
https://github.com/billiob/terminolo...erminology.pot

It would be handy for translators if such a .POT file would exist in Moksha's "po" folder. It's quite customary for GitHub "po" folders to have one.

Hello

Feel free to create it and pull request.

Stefan

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Fair enough.... I'll scratch my own itch in the best Linux tradition.

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Of course it SHOULD have one. I had noticed it before but it is a minor issue. Would be great if someone did this work for us as it is not a priority to me and I am unlikely to do it unless pressed by someone to do it. Thanks tho for pointing it out and if you do send a pull request I will merge it if it looks ok to me

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I can do that of course but if Kiezel knows what to do (...and he does) why not to rely on him

Stefan

Thanx Pjotr. Merged

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You're welcome!

Some explanation: I used the Dutch nl.po as base. At first I tried this command:
But that failed with a broken pipe error.

This online tool was successful, however:
https://mlocati.github.io/jsgettext/

(with thanks to its creator Michele Locati)

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I think a compiling the moksha code with gettext stuff included should create pot file automatically. This would be my way to do it. I had some rough time with this topic in the past. I saved one link to help me:

https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2014/11...ools-tutorial/

Not sure if poedit could do the pot file...

S

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Yes, a cleanly generated .pot file would be better, if only for the future.... But my "reverse engineered" .pot file appears to cover all translatable strings, so for the time being this looks like a good workaround.

Poedit, as far as I understand, can only be used for reverse engineering a .pot file (by removing translations from a .po file), and even that only in a limited way: you can scroll to a translated string and press "Ctrl k", which deletes its translation. That's a hell of a job for tackling all of Moksha's strings, so the online gettext tool that I found, was rather a lifesaver.

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