[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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