[Gambas-user] Understanding the translation process

[Martin]

El 30/1/23 a las 15:17, Benoit Minisini escribió:
> Yes, but I suggest that you don't rely on undocumented syntaxes or 
> configurations that may change at any moment, whatever you want to achieve.

Is DoNotTranslate an undocumented syntax?

What exactly do you mean by configurations that may change at any moment?

What I wanto to achive is translate as "automatically" as possible the 
Gambas projects, including the IDE, in principle into Spanish.
To do this:

1) I take what is inside the *.pot* file as a base of what needs to be 
translated (now minus the classes with the DoNotTranslate mark).

2) I put the translated phrases for each phrase of the original language 
if they are in the local translation database or if the file es.po 
exists, for example.

3) I save the new *es.po* file and create a copy of the existing one (if 
it exists).

4) I re-read all the translations of all the projects in my Gambas 
project directory to add the new sentences to the database if there are any.

In this way I get files of the style en-es.json where the translations 
of all the programmes are stored in all the available languages, which 
allows me to check, for example with Writer, for spelling mistakes, 
grammatical errors etc.

Martin