[Mailman-Users] editing the mailman.po file

[Jens Gutzeit]

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 19:41, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to change some of the content in the
>
> $PREFIX/messages/de/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po
>
> file. What do I have to do, to get mailman with the changes working? A
> reinstallation with a changed maiman.po file showed no changes :-(. Do I
> really need to reinstall mailman after editing the .po file?

No, you need to compile the .po file in a binary message catalog (.mo file) 
with msgfmt.

You should edit your po file, then read "man msgfmt" and copy your created .mo 
file in place of the existing one in messages/de/LC_MESSAGES/

>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Schoeppi

Jens