[Localisation] regarding converstion of po files to mo files

[scriptman]

hello all,

        I think i have explained it before too on how to get the po
files converted to mo and checking the stuff on the system. Any way's
i will try to explain it again step by step:

1)Once you are ready with a completely translated po file. use the
following commands to convert po files to mo.

$msgfmt -o test.mo test.po

note: msgfmt command will only work if you have gettext installed on the system.

2)copy the mo file to this location

/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/

3)make sure that you have installed the locales on the system for that
you have to give this command as root #dpkg-reconfigure locales, and
select te_IN UTF-8. restart your gdm and in the login screen their is
an option for language, in that select Telugu and give your login name
and password to login and open your translated application you should
see the application translated.

note: The above proceeder will only work for gnome applications. for
other applications which are not in gnome like openoffice, firefox
etc, have other way's to do that.

if you find that after doing as instructed you don't find the
translation's on the application check the version of the application
and the version for which you have translated.


bye
bhuvan