[Localization] Bamana Abiword localization

Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 14:33:20 EDT 2011


On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Dominique Rochefort <issasamb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We just completed the first phase of Abiword localization in Bamana (bm-ML),
> the main language of Mali.
>
> 1) Could you integrate this new localization into Abiword trunk ? The PO
> file is attached to this email.
>
> 2) Could we have the ownership on Bamana on POOTLE ? This way we would be
> able to upload PO files and continue the localization and  check-up process
> through POOTLE.
> My POOTLE ID is : "issasamb".
> I am already owner of Wolof and Mandinka languages.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dominique

Dear Dominique,

I will be happy to create a Bamana (bm_ML) project on Pootle and give
you language admin. as well as taking care of uploading the PO file.

I just need a little more info to get it set up properly in Pootle,
particularly handling of plural forms.  AbiWord doesn't employ gettext
plurals, but other projects do and it is best to get the plural
information correct from the very start as it can be a little tricky
to correct afterwards.

More information onthe  plural information needed.
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms

Specifically number of plurals and plural equation.

Unfortunately, Launchpad doesn't have plural information:
https://translations.launchpad.net/+languages/bm

One more question, is the preferred language name "Bamanankan" as
suggested on Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambara_language

cjl


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