Hi, zope/app/locales/TRANSLATE.txt says: ... After that, you need to merge those changes to all existing translations. You can do that by executing the ``i18nmergeall.py`` script from the ``utilities`` directory of your Zope 3 checkout: $ python utilities/i18nmergeall.py -l src/zope/app/locales So I tried that and found that in the 13 po files that are present, over 80 thousand lines were changed (counting all lines in an svn diff). Since the files combined have about 100 thousand lines, this could be called a fairly big change. :) So: is there a reason this merging is not regularly done anymore? Or can I just go ahead and submit those 80 thousand lines? Perhaps the zope.pot file should also be updated. I get an error when trying that though. This is in a checkout of svn.zope.org/repos/main/Zope3/trunk, with 'make' and 'make inplace' executed as they seemed necessary and with the Zope3/src/ dir on my PYTHONPATH: maurits@hobb:~/svn/Zope3 $ python2.4 utilities/i18nextract.py -d zope -p src/zope -o app/locales base path: '/home/maurits/svn/Zope3/' search path: /home/maurits/svn/Zope3/src/zope 'site.zcml' location: None exclude dirs: [] domain: 'zope' include default domain: True output file: '/home/maurits/svn/Zope3/src/zope/app/locales/zope.pot' Python only: False Traceback (most recent call last): File "utilities/i18nextract.py", line 175, in ? main() File "utilities/i18nextract.py", line 163, in main maker.add(zcml_strings(path, domain, site_zcml), base_dir) File "/home/maurits/svn/Zope3/src/zope/app/locales/extract.py", line 441, in zcml_strings context = config(site_zcml, features=("devmode",), execute=False) File "/home/maurits/svn/Zope3/src/zope/app/appsetup/appsetup.py", line 111, in config context = xmlconfig.file(file, context=context, execute=execute) File "/home/maurits/svn/Zope3/src/zope/configuration/xmlconfig.py", line 610, in file include(context, name, package) File "/home/maurits/svn/Zope3/src/zope/configuration/xmlconfig.py", line 539, in include f = openInOrPlain(path) File "/home/maurits/svn/Zope3/src/zope/configuration/xmlconfig.py", line 427, in openInOrPlain fp = open(filename) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/maurits/svn/Zope3/configure.zcml' Ah, pointing the script at site.zcml helps: maurits@hobb:~/svn/Zope3 $ python2.4 utilities/i18nextract.py -s site.zcml -d zope -p src/zope -o app/locales Then about a thousand lines are changed in the zope.pot file. So apparently this is also not done every day. :-) Is it okay to commit those changes as well (and merge those changes to the po files of course)? Should i18nextract.py be run with Zope3 trunk or with branches/3.4? It may very well be that the number of changes are far less big when run inside that branch. Internationally yours, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "This is your day, don't let them take it away." [Barlow Girl]