From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Progga Subject: Re: i18n questions Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 21:05:22 +0600 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040401210522.D336@Imrashi.net.bd> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from dizzy@roedu.net on Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 01:43:31PM +0300 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mihai RUSU Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 01:43:31PM +0300, Mihai RUSU wrote: > projects like KBabel to write such dictionary files. Anyone here has a > pointer to some detalied explanation of the .po and .gpo files (I see in > "gaim" that .gpo is some "compiled" form) ? Couse I might do some ".po to > CDB" compiler and go with this solution :) $ info gettext Basicallly, the PO file contains the translated messages in text form whereas the MO files have them in Binary form. In anycase, gettext works in user application only (AFAIK). So, I don't think it'll be of any help to you in this client-server context ;-( Khoda Hafez Progga