[OLPC library] [Localization] Lozalization of Library and components

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Hi,
Some questions.

1. What command is used to generate the POT file ? (I need to
regenerate the POT periodically in the Pootle server to ensure that
the new strings are covered - there's a cron job which runs a few
scripts to do this every day at midnight atm)

2.  library.pot is in library-activity/library-common. Shouldn't it be
in some kind of po/ directory ? If not - where should the po files go
so that the build system can pick them up.

3. Tokens seem to be used for the msgids (eg: Books long_name). The
actual string is put in the msgstr. IMO, this can cause confusion. For
example, once the msgstr is filled up by a translator - a subsequent
reviewer has no way of knowing the actual string unless s/he looks at
the original POT file. A better way would be to have the actual
strings as comments in the POT, ie:

# literature & reference
#: config/categories.info:4
msgid "Books long_name"
msgstr ""

The best way of course, is to have the string itself in the msgid itself - like:

#: config/categories.info:4
msgid "literature & reference"
msgstr ""


Thanks,
Sayamindu


On Jan 20, 2008 1:42 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 19, 2008 2:40 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2008 9:44 PM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
> > > We should copy the localization people on this thread (cc added)
> > >
> > > On Jan 16, 2008 12:16 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com> wrote:
> > > > We're going to be making a pretty big push for content and content
> > > translation in the next few weeks.  I would imagine that the library is
> > > already in pootle in some form or another, although I could be mistaken.
> >
> > Unfortunately, we do not have any content related stuff in Pootle
> > right now (except for the Packaging strings).
> > Please let me know what I can do to make push for content translation
> > easier for you guys - I would be more than happy to help here :-).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sayamindu
>
> Super.  I assigned #4530 to you, to start :-)  I'll get you po files
> for the new bundled collections when their po files are made.    SJ
>



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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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