[wp-hackers] Looking for best practices in how to deal with translations as a plugin developer

[Frank Bueltge]

use the plugin Localization and to create .mo, .po and .pot is veary esay
and fast. Also you become informations about bad strings etc. in your
plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/


2011/1/10 José Fontainhas <jfontainhas at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> Every new version of the plugin needs a new .pot (as line numbers for
> strings change between versions). The usual (but not mandatory)
> practice is to create a lang folder for your plugin which contains the
> .pot file, so that translators can create their languages' .po and .mo
> files there, and send them to you, if you want to distribute them
> along with the plugin.
>
> Creating a .pot file is not a big hassle and takes a few seconds.
>
> Zé
>
>
>
> On 8 January 2011 13:13, Bjorn Wijers <burobjorn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've created a few plugins and I've made translations for them. Now I
> need
> > to update some plugins and I wonder what the best practices are for
> dealing
> > with multiple versions and translations. E.g. do you always need to
> generate
> > a new pot file from scratch? Or are there better ways of dealing with
> this?
> > I'm looking for any hints, tips and methods from fellow plugin developers
> > dealing with this.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
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