[Nigeria-opensource] Nigerian Localization Efforts

Khaled Hassounah khaled at laptop.org
Wed Jul 19 14:22:13 EDT 2006


You guys are way ahead of me, on both ends. Great job!!!

So do you have sugar screen shots that you can share? :)

Khaled

Shina Owolabi wrote:
> Hi Khaled.
> I was talking to Marco (of RedHat) on the irc channel a while back, and
> he gave me
> directions on how to "git" sugar , which included a .pot file for the UI.
> I created the yoruba, igbo and hausa po files and sent them back to him.
> so there are nigerian po files there now!
> Thanks for all your help and advice.
> 
> Shina
> 
> On 7/19/06, *Khaled Hassounah* <khaled at laptop.org
> <mailto:khaled at laptop.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Shina,
> 
>     It took me a while, but here a preliminary answer that could help.
>     Currently there are no po files, as the project is in its very early
>     stage of development and no one got to that yet. There are two
>     approaches that you could follow:
> 
>     1. Contribute to the project by adding support for po files. This is
>     something that someone who is more experienced in development could do,
>     and is not much work but could have a huge impact not just for Nigerian
>     translation but for the overall project.
> 
>     2. Go through the files, and find the specific words that are used in
>     the user interface (there is only a handful at this stage) and translate
>     those.
> 
>     Anyone has any other ideas/concerns?
> 
>     Khaled
> 
>     Shina Owolabi wrote:
>     > Hi!
>     > We at Wazobia Linux want to get started on Nigerian language
>     > localizations right away, and
>     > we need to know how we can obtain po files for the Sugar UI  on
>     the olpc
>     > laptop. This is so
>     > we can begin translating it into our local languages here.
>     >
>     > How can we get them?
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     >
>     > Shina Owolabi
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