diff --git a/doc/config.rst b/doc/config.rst index e72bfdf46..906a9e199 100644 --- a/doc/config.rst +++ b/doc/config.rst @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ documentation on :ref:`intl` for details. Directories in which to search for additional message catalogs (see :confval:`language`), relative to the source directory. The directories on this path are searched by the standard :mod:`gettext` module. - + Internal messages are fetched from a text domain of ``sphinx``; so if you add the directory :file:`./locale` to this settting, the message catalogs (compiled from ``.po`` format using :program:`msgfmt`) must be in diff --git a/doc/intl.rst b/doc/intl.rst index b5abf9d80..89cfcd2c8 100644 --- a/doc/intl.rst +++ b/doc/intl.rst @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ and contain messages in your original language *only*. They can be delivered to translators which will transform them to ``.po`` files --- so called **message catalogs** --- containing a mapping from the original -messages to foreign-language strings. +messages to foreign-language strings. Gettext compiles them into a binary format known as **binary catalogs** through :program:`msgfmt` for efficiency reasons. If you make these files discoverable