[Patch] Re: gettext and OLD_PO_FILE_INPUT=yes (Re: ANNOUNCE: GDM2.2.2.1, the "George deserves a spanking!" release)

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>]

On 2 Jun 2001, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> George <jirka@5z.com> writes:
>
> Thanks for the new release.
>
> > A note on this release is that the "ja" and "zh_TW.Big5" translations aren't
> > included because the files on CVS are b0rk and have some illegal characters
> > and such other things.  I hope to fix this before next release.
>
> 2001-06-02  Karl Eichwalder  <ke@suse.de>
>
> 	* ja.po, zh_TW.Big5.po: Use OLD_PO_FILE_INPUT=yes to merge the
> 	files.
>
> Now the files are woring for me (gettext 0.10.38).  This command did the
> trick (hopefully for you, too); native speakers please check:
>
> for l in ja zh_TW.Big5; do
>   cp $l.po $l.po.tmp
>   LANG=C OLD_PO_FILE_INPUT=yes msgmerge -v $l.po.tmp  gdm.pot -o $l.po
> done

Hi,

Sorry for the (shameful) fact that nobody was updating the zh_TW
translation of gdm. A patch is attached to make zh_TW.Big5.po work with
newer gettext, and put back the copyright notice. If I have time I'll try
to finish the translation. Thanks!

Yours,
Abel Cheung
--- ../waiting/gdm2.po	Sun Jun  3 17:14:13 2001
+++ gdm2.po	Sun Jun  3 17:17:31 2001
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-#
+# Traditional chinese translation for gdm2
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # Jing-Jong Shyue <shyue@sonoma.com.tw>, 2001
 #
 msgid ""
@@ -545,14 +546,14 @@
 #: daemon/verify-shadow.c:114
 #, c-format
 msgid "Root login disallowed on display '%s'"
-msgstr "Root 不允許\在在顯示器 '%s' 登入"
+msgstr "Root 不允許在在顯示器 '%s' 登入"
 
 # daemon/verify-crypt.c:78
 # daemon/verify-shadow.c:88
 #: daemon/verify-crypt.c:110 daemon/verify-pam.c:211
 #: daemon/verify-shadow.c:117
 msgid "Root login disallowed"
-msgstr "不允許\ Root 登入"
+msgstr "不允許 Root 登入"
 
 #: daemon/verify-crypt.c:121 daemon/verify-pam.c:221
 #: daemon/verify-shadow.c:128
@@ -566,7 +567,7 @@
 #: daemon/verify-shadow.c:131
 #, fuzzy
 msgid "Login disabled"
-msgstr "不允許\ Root 登入"
+msgstr "不允許 Root 登入"
 
 # daemon/verify-pam.c:153
 #: daemon/verify-pam.c:238 daemon/verify-pam.c:316
@@ -1040,7 +1041,7 @@
 #: gui/gdmlogin.c:2253
 #, c-format
 msgid "Can't open icon file: %s. Suspending iconify feature!"
-msgstr "無法開啟圖示檔: %s. 停止圖示化功\能!"
+msgstr "無法開啟圖示檔: %s. 停止圖示化功能!"
 
 # daemon/verify-crypt.c:58
 # daemon/verify-pam.c:123