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Celestia 1.6.0 - Language files (?)

The constellation of Capricorn was translated in Portuguese (both Pt and Br) as
Capric?nio when the right name is
Capric?rnio.
I searched for this word inside Celestia files and found it twice only in Portuguese Pt and Br language's files.
I simply changed them, save the files, restart Celestia and after that no name in Portuguese was shown. The application simply discarded both language packages showing only the Latin names.
Changing back the files to its original content did not work. So I did installed Celestia again and got the names working again although wrong.
I do not know why it was like this (maybe some file packaging check).

I would like to suggest the correction.

Thanks to all contributors that built this wonder!

klingonk

klingonk,

What editor did you use to modify the .po files?
And what is your Operating System ?

Vincent:

I used the windows notepad.
I did not change a .po file. There is no .po files that I could find, related to Celestia.
I Changed in fact .mo files.
My operating system is:Win XP-Pro SP3.

Klingonk wrote:Vincent:

I used the windows notepad.
I did not change a .po file. There is no .po files that I could find, related to Celestia.
I Changed in fact .mo files.
My operating system is:Win XP-Pro SP3.

Klingonk,

Since .mo files are binary, you can't edit them using a simple text editor.
You may want to try reading the Celestia Internationalization page on the Celestia Wikibook,
and more particularly the following chapters:

1- Getting .po files
2- Editing .po files

Once you've edited your pt.po file using poedit, just click the "save catalog" button to create
your revised mo file. Then, just rename it as celestia_constellations.mo and place it in the
locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ dir.

Thanks for your support!
It worked great.
I am making some work around fixing some translation strange Terms.

Klingonk wrote:Thanks for your support!
It worked great.

You're welcome.

Klingonk wrote:I am making some work around fixing some translation strange Terms.

Great! Please, submit your changes to our Portuguese translator.
You should find his contact on the Celestia Internationalization page.