Magento translations in external script

Question

I want to be able to use $this->__('String to translate') in an external script. How do I do this? Magento version 1.5.1.0.

Answer 1

I think the right way to set locale is:

Mage::getSingleton('core/translate')->setLocale('sv_SE')->init('frontend', true);

Answer 2

This should work:

require 'app/Mage.php'; // here you should use the correct path to Mage.php file

Mage::app();
Mage::getSingleton('core/translate')->init('sv_SE', true); // UPDATE
$to_translate = "String to translate";
$translated = Mage::helper('core')->__($to_translate);