I have made my swedish translation for Sandbox available as sv_SE.po and sv_SE.mo. You only need the later unless you intend to modify the translation.
Even if you are using english as standard on your blog, you can still benefit from gettext to modify some wordings without changing any of the template files. For the purpose of demonstration I’ve uploaded the en_US.po and en_US.mo I’m using on this very blog as examples.
For a day or two I have been whining about Sandbox on Andy and Scott’s blogs and in my gettext post. Why? Because I recently “jumped on the Sandbox bandwagon”. Making me boast to friends that I’d switched to a theme that made the site look exactly like as before! While they were staring at me in a way I only could interpret as awe.
The theme really reinvigorated my interest in designing for WordPress since it bring a lot of power to the CSS while giving you harsh constrains on the markup (constrains are good, too many choices result in angst, limitations release creativity). And Sandbox do have the promise of becoming the CSS Zen Garden of WordPress.
So I have decided to collect all my Sandbox “issues” and track theme here in this post.
I’ve done a translation of the Sandbox theme for my swedish section of the site using the GNU gettext tools. It’s pretty simple.