[Localization] various glitches (was: Localization efforts needed)

[Alexander Dupuy]

Looking at the Spanish Honey files 
(http://translate.sugarlabs.org/es/honey/) I noticed that the 
viewslides.po file has an 'X' next to it (and 0% completion) due to the 
following error (from X mouseover):

viewslides.po: 70: 10: invalid multibyte sequence
viewslides.po: 70: 11: invalid multibyte sequence
msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors

When clicking on the viewslides.po file, I get the following error:

Error pootlestatistics instance has no attribute 'classifyunits'

but no strings are displayed.  I can see strings in other languages 
(e.g. Portuguese).

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Chris - I just went through your suggestions (and untranslated items) 
for Turtle Art in Spanish - where your suggestions seemed correct to me, 
I entered them as translations, and I made suggestions where we differed 
(or you had no suggestion) - I also entered a few translations (where 
the technical content made it seem unlikely we would get better 
alternatives, e.g. for the FILO heap stuff) and corrections of fuzzy 
items as well.  You might want to review suggestions and enter any of my 
suggestions which seem good to you.  We probably want a native speaker 
to review all of this, but there is a lot of new technical stuff in 
there that will be problematic for most translators without programming 
experience.

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In the calculate activity (eqnparserhelp.py:107) the English string 
"sinh(x), return the hyperbolic tangent of x. Given by sinh(x) / 
cosh(x)" is incorrect (this describes tanh, not sinh) and I suggest 
breaking the string freeze to correct this (I entered corrected [using 
tanh] translations of the incorrect text for Spanish and Portuguese, but 
why should English speakers be stuck with the incorrect text?).

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Finally, is there some way to contact the administrator(s) for the 
Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese translation teams?  Brazilian 
Portuguese seems to be in pretty dismal shape compared to the 
(non-Brazilian) Portuguese (Glucose only 10%, Fructose a little bit 
better at 34%, and Honey at 58% - although as noted above, these 
statistics are probably worse than the reality).

While I have translation rights for Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese 
Fructose, I only have suggestion rights for Glucose and Honey (I cannot 
send / update translations) and don't particularly want to spend a lot 
of time making suggestions that may or may not actually ever be reviewed 
and incorporated.  If the administrator(s) are willing to grant me 
translation rights (or provide some guarantee that suggestions I make 
will actually be reviewed and incorporated) I would be willing to help 
clear up some of the problems with the Brazilian Portuguese translations.

Although I am not a native speaker, I can provide as reference of my 
ability the following comments on my translations for Virtaal from the 
Pootle translate-devel mailing list:

Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle escribió:
> Em Ter, 2009-07-21 às 02:31 -0400, Alexander Dupuy escreveu:
>   
>> I have updated the Spanish and Portuguese translations for the new
>> strings.  These could definitely stand a review by a native speaker
>> (especially the Portuguese), but they should not be too far off (I ran
>> them through pofilter checks and OpenOffice spelling checks).  I have
>> committed them to SVN already, so you can get the updated es.po and
>> pt_BR.po files at
>> http://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/translate/src/trunk/virtaal/po/
>> for review.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the translation, Alexander. They are really impressive coming
> from a non-native speaker :) What's your nationality, and where did you
> learn Portuguese?
>
> I just reviewed the translation, improving a few (really) things, but I
> left your name in the "last-translator" field.
>   


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