[Localization] translation tools for Kreyòl for OLPC/SugarLabs

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 17:43, Alexander Dupuy <alex.dupuy at mac.com> wrote:
> Edward Cherlin escribió:
>> +1 for making these tools available to the schoolchildren in XO
>> bundles. We should see whether we can do the same for the dozens of
>> other languages on Pootle
>
> Virtaal is not language-specific - if it runs on an XO, its support for
> machine translation engines (Google, and now Microsoft) and other
> features (e.g. terminology support from open-tran.eu) will allow any
> language pairs that those engines support to be used.
>
> Bridging the gap between a Gnome-based Python app and the Sugar XO
> environment will not be so easy, though.  If anyone knows of any other
> examples of Python apps that have been ported from Gnome to Sugar, it
> would be helpful to hear about them.

I expect it to be reasonably easy. Labyrinth is a python GNOME app
from which a Sugar activity has been made, but it was particularly
difficult because there were assumptions about the particular running
environment scattered all over the place.

Regards,

Tomeu

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