Message catalogs

After completing the translations in the oriya.po file, it must be compiled to a binary format that can be quickly loaded by the gettext tools. To do that, use:

  msgfmt -c -v -o hello.mo oriya.po

The -c option does detailed checking of the PO file format, -v makes the program verbose, and the output filename is given by the argument to the -o option. Note that the base of the output filename should match the message domain given in the first arguments to bindtextdomain and textdomain on lines 8 and 9 of the example program in Sec. 2. The .mo (machine object) file should be stored in the location whose base directory is given by the second argument to bindtextdomain. The final location of the file will be in the sub-directory LL/LC_MESSAGES or LL_CC/LC_MESSAGES under the base directory, where LL stands for a language, and CC for a country. For example, as we have chosen the standard location, /usr/share/locale, for our base directory, and for us the language and country strings are ``or'' and ``IN,'' respectively, we will place hello.mo in /usr/share/locale/or_IN. Note that you will need super-user privilege to copy hello.mo to this system directory. Thus,

  mkdir -p /usr/share/locale/or_IN/LC_MESSAGES
  cp hello.mo /usr/share/locale/or_IN/LC_MESSAGES