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Re: [trinity-devel] translation process

From: Denis Prost <denis.prost@...>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:31:51 +0200

Le 26/10/2010 18:30, Denis Prost a écrit :
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> Le 26/10/2010 17:51, Robert Xu a écrit :
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:32, Denis Prost<denis.prost@...>  
>> wrote:
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>>> Le 25/10/2010 23:00, Robert Xu a écrit :
>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:37, Denis 
>>>> Prost<denis.prost@...>    wrote:
>>>>> Can the trinity developers take care of that ?
>>>>>
>>>> I think you should be able to compare with other po files and add it
>>>> yourself :P
>>>> I'll test for any breakage, if you desire.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'm not sure I understand what you say. Do you mean adding new 
>>> strings one
>>> by one by hand in the po file ?
>>> First, I might miss some new strings doing it that way.
>>> Secondly, each trinity translater will have to do that manual 
>>> strings adding
>>> in his language po files. Seeing the number of languages trinity is
>>> translated into, that seems to be a terrible waste of time.
>>> A centralized process adding new strings to all po files in any 
>>> languages
>>> would be a lot more efficient. I can't imagine there's no automatic 
>>> way to
>>> achieve this. But unfortunately I don't know how and don't have much 
>>> time to
>>> investigate. I hope someone on the list has some knowledge about 
>>> that topic.
>>>
>> hm, maybe Trinity could do something like Fedora does?
>> https://translate.fedoraproject.org
>>
> I can't tell myself, but surely a clear translation process providing 
> all instructions needed would help.
> (not forgetting that translators are just translators and may be very 
> ignorant besides !).
> Regards,
>
> Denis
>
Maybe what we're looking for is here :
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/kde-i18n-howto.html#SECTION00050000000000000000
especially chapter 3 about Makefile.am.
As far as I understand (I just checked quickly) It seems that "make 
messages" should be run periodically on the source tree by its 
administrator to update the pot files, followed by some command to merge 
the new pot files with the existing corresponding po files for each 
language (at present time, the po files seem to exist only in kde-i18n 
directory as tarballs : maybe if they existed as untared in svn, it 
would be more easy to do the merging and then for the translators to 
update them.

Regards,

Denis