[Bug 421917] Re: ICU isn't translatable through Launchpad

[Adolfo Jayme]

** Changed in: icu (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: icu (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  ICU isn't translatable through Launchpad

Status in “icu” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  The various locale translations (e.g. country and timezone names) are
  not translated through gettext but through a custom resource method
  (http://userguide.icu-project.org/locale/resources).

  The source translation files are only stored in ICU's source control
  (http://source.icu-
  project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/source/data/locales/).  In the tarball
  that ICU ships, the locale data has all been globbed together into a
  binary file (source/data/in/icudt40l.dat).

  Not sure the standard method for fixing this.  (A) Encourage upstream
  to use gettext (doesn't seem likely) or (B) download the source data
  and transform it to gettext as part of the build process so Launchpad
  can grab the po/pot files?

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