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Japanese translation of Pinax

Pinax on Django looks good, but Japanese translation isn't available. Will try to work on the po file in the source as a good experience for me to go thru a procedure to localize a software using gettext and its related programs.

Here's a memo on procedures to translate the user interface using .po files. (cf. http://bluequartz.org/docs/translate/index-j.html)

$ sudo apt-get install gettext
$ mkdir -p /home/yarrow/translation/pinax/ja
$ cp -R /home/yarrow/pinax/projects/complete_project/locale/en/* /home/yarrow/translation/pinax/ja/
$cd /home/yarrow/translation/pinax/ja

Becauuse django.mo and django.po are both available, no need to do

$ msgunfmt django.mo -o django.po

After editing django.po for Japanese translation, create django.mo by

$ msgfmt django.po -o django.mo

Then,

$mkdir -p /home/yarrow/pinax/projects/complete_project/locale/ja
$ cp /home/yarrow/translation/pinax/ja/*.mo  /home/yarrow/pinax/projects/complete_project/locale/ja