Gunnar, confirming your own tickets is very bad style, as is telling other volunteers what work they should do on your behalf. FWIW, your latest test case bails out for me at step 3.
$ sudo msgfmt mytest.po -o /usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/mytest.mo mytest.po:1: missing `msgstr' section mytest.po:2:2: syntax error msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors I have no real idea of how gettext works, but I'm not convinced you do, either ;-) I'm outta here. Good luck. ** Changed in: gettext (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => New ** Changed in: gettext (Ubuntu) Assignee: Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/700213 Title: Translations under a language's main dialect are not found if LANGUAGE contains only the language code To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gettext/+bug/700213/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs