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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: How to test desktop.mo in KDE2 without committing to CVS
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-03-28 7:41:49
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Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am sorry to repeat this question. Reason being I
> dont know where to search the mail archives (if this
> group has any?).
> Okay. The language in question is Tamil. I have
> partially translated desktop.po to Tamil. I want to
> see how this all appears on my desktop. I have
> compiled and
> using the CVS version of KDE2.
> the steps i have done so far is 'make && make
> install'. the desktop.mo files are copied to the
> appropriate locale directories. But when i pick up the
> Tamil
> language, from the control panel, Tamil does not
> appear on the menus.
> before doing a make, i converted desktop.po to UTF-8
> (using recode with 'Latin1..UTF-8' as argument). i
> tried both ways. before recoding and after recoding.
> the translations i made in desktop.po is not visible
> at all.
> where am i going wrong? The KDE howto says that the
> desktop.po must be in UTF-8 format!
> But should the encoding be in Unicode only??

I thought, we made it clear, that desktop.po isn't used
by a running KDE itself, but by some scripts that patch
the .desktop files each night

Greetings, Stephan

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