Re: Making a descriptor file translatable

[Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor ukr net>]

четвер, 23 липня 2020 р. 18:31:19 EEST Adwait Rawat via gnome-i18n написано:
> here's a link to one of the said libretro file
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/adwaitrawat/gnome-games/-/blob/adwait/translatable_
> name/flatpak/libretro-cores/nestopia.libretro#L18
>
> Thanks,
> Adwait

Hi,

This looks like the usual .desktop file. You can use xgettext to extract 
messages like this:

cat $(PACKAGE_NAME).libretro | grep _ | cut -d "=" --fields=2 | sed 's|^|_("|
g' | sed 's|$$|")|g' > $(PACKAGE_NAME).libretro.tmp

xgettext OTHER_FILES $(PACKAGE_NAME).libretro.tmp

rm -f $(PACKAGE_NAME).libretro.tmp

Then merge them back:

msgfmt --desktop --template=$(PACKAGE_NAME).libretro -d po -o 
your_file.libretro

Or you can use some custom Python script to extract/merge translations, like 
this:

https://github.com/manatools/dnfdragora/blob/master/tools/desktoppo.py

Just replace the "desktop" with "libretro" and customize it as needed. msgcat 
*.pot > all.pot can be used to merge your intermediate file with the main pot 
file.

I'm not a GNOME expert, this was just some thoughts.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Yuri