[Koha-translate] A last update for transaltion (3.0.5)

[Chris Cormack]

2009/12/7 Ricardo Dias Marques <lists at ricmarques.net>:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 05:28, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Ah ha, there was another error, a missing msgid.
>> [in the Portuguese OPAC PO file]
>> I've added that, and pushed it, and it's happy again.
>
> Great! Now I get the expected "The install seems to be successful." at
> the end of the "./install-code.pl pt-PT" execution. I also checked the
> web interfaces, after running that command. Everything looks good (I
> got the expected maintenance message in the OPAC, so I went to the Web
> installer, logged in and that updated the database structure
> perfectly).
>
> I must admit that I find strange that you were able to solve this
> problem by just adding an empty "msgid" and corresponding "msgstr" in
> lines 6 and 7 of the PO file. Do you have any idea for why
> "install-code.pl" was complaining and why does this strange (to me)
> correction works (as it apparently does)?
>
> Thanks a lot for having pushed this fix Chris!  :)
>
Those strings are apparently what msgmerge uses to tell it is a .po file.
Without them it simply stops. Strange but true :)

Chris