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2 Submitting Translations.

To submit one or several PO files, simply give them as arguments to wyslij-po in the command line, like this:

$ wyslij-po pl.po uk.po bg.po

For each file, specified in the command line, the utility will do the following steps:

  1. Retrieve PO headers

    PO headers contain important information about the translation. These headers are stored in the first entry of each PO file.

  2. Restore canonical PO name.

    A canonical PO name consists of the project name and version, separated by dash, which are followed by a dot, the language code as per ISO 639, and the suffix ‘.po’. To determine the canonical name, wyslij-po uses the contents of Project-Id-Version and Language PO headers. The value of Project-Id-Version supplies the name and version of the project this file is for, and the value of Language gives the ISO-639 abbreviation of the language name. For example, if the two headers in question were:

    Project-Id-Version: cflow 1.2
    Language: pl
    

    then the canonical name for that file is cflow-1.2.pl.po.

    If the PO file lacks the Language header, wyslij-po analyzes the Language-Team header. The full language name extracted from this header is looked up in a language table file to find the corresponding ISO-639 code (see Langtab).

  3. Verify the consistency of PO file.

    This step ensures that the file corresponds to the latest version of the package in question and that it does not contain obvious formatting errors. For the detailed description of the checks performed, see Verification, below.

  4. Form the message to be submitted.

    The message is a MIME 1.0 message, whose body contains the compressed PO file, and the headers contain the necessary registration information (see Message).

  5. Send the message.

    See Sending, below.

The following sections describe each step in detail.


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