[Localization] Web site .po files in Pootle?

Walter Bender walter at laptop.org
Fri Jan 11 13:19:40 EST 2008


I made a POT file for the start pages:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Felice/PO-laptop.org-gettingstarted-en-US

It is not yet in Pootle, as I have been awaiting advise as to whether
or not to restructure the file first (It is over 300 strings).

regards.

-walter

On Jan 11, 2008 1:04 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with what Korakurider has to say. Prime targets for
> translation via Pootle include the start pages
> http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/start/, etc. However, the wiki, IMHO
> is a target which moves too fast for translators to translate via
> Pootle.
> For translating the static web pages, I can try to cook up scripts
> which break up the text into paragraphs and put the paragraphs into
> POT files, and does the reverse.
> Cheers,
> Sayamindu
>
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 5:03 PM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi.
> > It might be better to use Pootle and gettext tool chain if the document is
> > stable one like user manual.
> > But I think it isn't good fit at least for informal document like wiki,
> > that would kill its light weight nature.   And we as non-English
> > speaker would have problem
> > if only the precise translation of original contents from English to
> > other languages is allowed...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > /Korakurider
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 11, 2008 8:11 PM, Alexander Todorov <atodorov at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Good afternoon,
> > > I was wondering why don't wiki/web site translations go in Pootle?
> > > Is there some technical issue preventing this?
> > > IMO this will lead to a standardized work flow for translators, e.g.
> > > want to translate -> go to Pootle.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Alexander.
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