ICU isn't translatable through Launchpad
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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icu (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The various locale translations (e.g. country and timezone names) are not translated through gettext but through a custom resource method (http://
The source translation files are only stored in ICU's source control (http://
Not sure the standard method for fixing this. (A) Encourage upstream to use gettext (doesn't seem likely) or (B) download the source data and transform it to gettext as part of the build process so Launchpad can grab the po/pot files?
summary: |
- Isn't translatable through Launchpad + ICU isn't translatable through Launchpad |
Changed in icu (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
You can use the following command to open the .dat file, but I'm not sure how to open the .res files yet, but maybe that's a more sane way to get back the source files than downloading them?
icupkg -d . -x \* icudt40l.dat