[Etoys] How to translate Etoys

Takashi Yamamiya tak at metatoys.org
Mon Jul 23 16:39:20 EDT 2007


Hi Bert,

> We should create a better file hierarchy, named "po". In think the class 
> category should be the directory name and contain the translations:
> 
>  po/EToys/EToys.pot
>  po/EToys/de.po
>  po/EToys/pt.po
>  po/Connectors/Connectors.pot
>  po/Connectors/de.po
>  po/Connectors/pt.po

It is easy though, how do we actually setup the translation environment?
If we follow Fedora's way, is it fit to Fedora's convention?
I have looked http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Translations shortly, 
but I couldn't find out the exactly process we should to.

Or, how about to use launchpad.net? https://translations.launchpad.net/
It has fancy web tool for gettext so that it seems to be good for
non hacker people.

> Also, as you mentioned, we still should reduce the number of categories. 
> Like, all Connectors stuff should be one file only.

How many files did you expect? Yoshiki suggested me that three is enough.
It is hard to decide before getting started actual translation process.

> And I notice that some Comments are not too helpful - like, all comments 
> in Protocols.pot are the same.

I know, current one is just a hack. The gettext exporter only works with
literal receivers properly. We should fix, but it will need more a week.

Cheers,
- Takashi



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