[R-pkg-devel] translation .mo files
Hi Paul, Check out this doc file for suggested workflows: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/tools/html/update_pkg_po.html The key part is that you need to create a .pot file from which the .po files are generated and edit. Then you need to "install" the translations (before R CMD build) to get them in the right place. I wouldn't recommend trying to do any of that by hand. I once wrote a more convenient version of all of this (no longer on CRAN) that might be helpful. See, especially this file: https://github.com/RL10N/msgtools/blob/master/R/install_translations.R. That package also contains translations so you can see an example of where everything should end up. Best, -Thomas Thomas J. Leeper
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 11:05 AM <r-package-devel-request at r-project.org> wrote:
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 03:14:54 -0500 From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert902 at gmail.com> To: r-package-devel at r-project.org Subject: [R-pkg-devel] translation .mo files Message-ID: <053184fa-8caa-e09a-603f-9bd37cc2362c at gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" I have been sent .po and .mo files with message translations for one of my packages. The .po file I know goes in the source package po/ directory but I have not had .mo files previously. The translator thinks the .mo file goes in inst/po. The .mo file seems to be generated from the .po file, but I am not sure if that happens in the install of the source package, or in some pre-process. I thought I could determine this by looking at an installed package, but I don't see .po or .mo files in installed packages. So far I have had no luck finding documentation on these details. So I have three questions. -Should the .mo file be included in the package, and if so, where? -When a package is installed, where does the translation information go in the directory structure of the library? -Is this documented somewhere? (Please not a vague reference to 'Writing R Extensions', I've looked there and many other places. I need a section or page reference.) Thanks, Paul Gilbert