[Lazarus] Resource strings

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:46:28 +0200
Alex du Plessis <alexdup01 at telkomsa.net> wrote:

> That is exactly what I did (using Project/Project Options/il8n/enable 
> il8n) initially and that is when I got the jumbled (and unwanted) 
> strings from it seems my .lpr file.

Why unwanted? These are the strings of your forms.


> No .mo file associated with my
> unit file that contains the resource strings.  The .rst file for the
> unit file did get created though and using rstconv still works.

.mo files are only needed by gettext. The .po files can be read
directly by the LCL translation unit, so no need for lazarus to create
mo files.

 
> I am running on WinXP with the snapshot from 20/02/2008.  I know that 
> the enable il8n option worked in previous snapshots, but something
> seems to have changed.  I did a completely new(clean) install of
> Lazarus using a new directory and it still does the same.Maybe
> something wrong in my project file?  It still compiles without a
> hitch though.

Mattias