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Miscellaneous => Translations => Topic started by: TErxleben on July 31, 2016, 06:39:27 pm

Title: Problem with translation
Post by: TErxleben on July 31, 2016, 06:39:27 pm

Hi folks,

i'm working with i18n first Time.
With Support of the Wiki, i did following steps:

1. Activate i18n in Projectsettings.
2. Create Dir languages at Exe-Level.
3. Add DefaultTranslator to uses in Mainform.
3. Copy relevant .po-Files in languages (expecially sdb_consts from component dbexport)

So my Project translates my own Projectfiles fine. But Strings from package dbexport are still in default-english.

What i'm doing wrong? Any Ideas?

I'm using Laz 1.7/build 52666M, FPC 3.0.0

Title: Re: Problem with translation
Post by: wp on July 31, 2016, 07:28:34 pm

Copy these files to your languages directory. The language files of dbexport are in (lazarus)/componens/dbexport/languages. You'll probably also need the lclstrconsts in (lazarus)/lcl/languages.

Title: Re: Problem with translation
Post by: TErxleben on July 31, 2016, 11:28:53 pm

Thx for reply,

1. All required .po-Files allready copied into local project languages-dir.
2. I am working in Linux-Env, but testing against Win (in VM) shows the same problem.

Title: Re: Problem with translation
Post by: wp on July 31, 2016, 11:41:25 pm

Ah! And you must manually translate the dbexport strings because the DefaultTranslator only takes care of the project's po file and the lclstrconsts.po:

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1. uses
2.   translations;
3. var
4.   langdir: String;  // the "languages" directory containing your po files
5.   lang: String;     // the abbreviation of the language to be translated to, e.g. "de"
6. begin
7.   ...
8.   TranslateUnitResourceStrings('sdb_consts', langdir + 'sdb_consts.' + lang + '.po');
9.  

Title: Re: Problem with translation
Post by: TErxleben on August 01, 2016, 12:04:06 pm

Thank you wp.
That does the trick.