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PROGRAM:
NAME
podebconf-display-po - display content of a PO file in a debconf interface
SYNOPSIS
podebconf-display-po [-h] [-f FRONTEND] file.po
DESCRIPTION
As with any other localization work, translators should test their translations by running
the program they are working on. But this is a very hard job with complicated
configuration scripts because there is no automatic way to have all messages displayed.
The podebconf-display-po program could be called the Poor Man Localization Checker for
debconf. It parses a PO file, tries to guess what the original templates file did look
like, and displays messages in a debconf interface.
Of course being root is not mandatory, and there is no interaction between podebconf-
display-po and system-wide debconf settings.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display a usage summary and exit.
-f, --frontend=FRONTEND
Select an alternate debconf frontend.
CAVEATS
· As podebconf-display-po relies on "debconf" to display questions, your environment
must be setup to display localized questions in the language of the PO file. If you
want to check a translation in another language, you need to temporarily change your
settings, e.g.
$ LANGUAGE=de podebconf-display-po de.po
If the PO file cannot be converted into your current encoding, English strings are
displayed instead of the localized ones. You then have to switch to a UTF-8
environment to prevent encoding mismatch.
· Prior to 0.8.3, "po-debconf" did only insert the field name in PO files. But some
discussions on mailing-lists showed that text format does depend on template type,
e.g. string and boolean types are different because the former is an open question and
user has to enter some text input, whereas the latter is basically a Yes/No question.
Authors have to think about it when writing their templates files, but translators
also have to be aware.
This is achieved when PO files are generated by po-debconf >= 0.8.3, template type is
inserted in PO files. With older versions, podebconf-display-po has a trivial
algorithm to determine original template type, and may sometimes be wrong.
· The "dialog" frontend, when based upon "whiptail", traps system signals and thus
podebconf-display-po cannot be interrupted by "Ctrl-C" when using this frontend.
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