[Localization] Attention all localizers

[Chris Leonard]

There may be an excellent opportunity to rapidly pick up some good
suggestions for your languages project's strings.

http://open-tran.eu/

If your language is listed here:

http://open-tran.eu/languages.html

you can rapidly search these upstream projects:

http://open-tran.eu/projects.html

to see of there is an identical or closely matching string already
translated upstream.  This works quite well for a lot of the shorter strings
and even for some of the very "technical" computer-ese ones, but obviously
longer strings that are specific to Sugar will not be matched upstream.
This is a translation memory of upstream localized strings, not a machine
translation.

If you open two browser windows, one open to Poolte and one showing
open-trans.eu, you can fairly quickly copy/paste a largish number of entries
to look for suggestions in a relatively quick timeframe.  This sort of
analysis can also be done to see of our strings are translated in a similar
way to those upstream.  As the Open-trans motto says "Consistency matters".

Warmest Regards,

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator
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