On Tue, 9 May 2006, Christian U. wrote:

> > Lazarus does not use .mo files anymore. It uses the .po files directly.
> > See unit lcl/translations.pas. The header contains an example.
>
> oh, sorry is ther an format difference ?
> i think its only the ending that is different ? and most gettext
> applications use .mo so why we use .po for the final translations ?
>
> > Vincent has the translation system on his todo items on the road to
> lazarus
> > 1.0.
>
> that schould do the same work like poEdit ?!
> mhm maybe it is more useable to fix the problems that already there by such
> advanced
> lazarus programmers, i think on unicode support of lcl-windows at example ;)
> instead of such
> simple thibngs like the translations that can be done simply with external
> tools like poEdit multiplattform ?!

There are good reasons for writing a Lazarus tool

1. poEdit does not have support for the .rst files that the FPC compiler 
creates.

2. Lazarus codetools can scan for resourcestrings directly in the sources.
   This kind of integration is not possible in poEdit.

Michael.

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