Re: gnome-i18n digest, Vol 1 #98 - 3 msgs

["Benson Samuel" <benson mailmetoday com>]

On Monday, December 04, 2000 at 12:05:23 PM, gnome-i18n@gnome.org wrote:

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>   1. Re: Updated Package Descriptions Translations - Volunteers? (Stanislav Brabec)
>   2. Re: Updated Package Descriptions Translations - Volunteers? (simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk)
>   3. Status not working? (Christian Rose)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:45:07 +0100
> From: Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
> To: simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk
> Cc: Aaron Weber <aaron@helixcode.com>, gnome-i18n@gnome.org,
> Gnome-Doc-List <gnome-doc-list@gnome.org>
> Subject: Re: Updated Package Descriptions Translations - Volunteers?
> 
> 
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> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:42:24PM +0000, simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > For example, the could be a file MASTER.txt:
> > ==== MASTER.txt ====
> > gnome-core "Gnome-core is core to GNOME"
> > gnome-libs "Basic gnome libraries"
> > gnome-games "Gnome GaMes"
> > ==== END ====
> > 
> > This can be converted (using a Perl script) to MASTER.pot:
> 
> Do you like sed? You only need to do anything with POT-Creation-Date...
> 
> I think, package name as comment is better...
> 
> # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
> # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
> #
> #, fuzzy
> msgid ""
> msgstr ""
> "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSIONn"
> "POT-Creation-Date: 2000-12-02 16:41+0100n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONEn"
> "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>n"
> "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>n"
> "MIME-Version: 1.0n"
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSETn"
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODINGn"
> 
> #. gnome-core
> msgid "Gnome-core is core to GNOME"
> msgstr ""
> 
> #. gnome-libs
> msgid "Basic gnome libraries"
> msgstr ""
> 
> #. gnome-games
> msgid "Gnome GaMes"
> msgstr ""
> 
> -- 
> Stanislav Brabec
> 
> --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="text.sed"
> 
> #! /usr/bin/sed
> s/^\([^ ]*\) "\(.*\)"$/\
> #. \1\
> msgid "\2"\
> msgstr ""/
> 
> 1i# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.\
> # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.\
> # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.\
> #\
> #, fuzzy\
> msgid ""\
> msgstr ""\
> "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"\
> "POT-Creation-Date: 2000-12-02 16:41+0100\n"\
> "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"\
> "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"\
> "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"\
> "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"\
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"\
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
> 
> --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 00:18:11 +0000 (GMT)
> From: <simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: <simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk>
> To: Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
> Cc: Aaron Weber <aaron@helixcode.com>, <gnome-i18n@gnome.org>,
> Gnome-Doc-List <gnome-doc-list@gnome.org>
> Subject: Re: Updated Package Descriptions Translations - Volunteers?
> 
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:42:24PM +0000, simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > > For example, the could be a file MASTER.txt:
> > > ==== MASTER.txt ====
> > > gnome-core "Gnome-core is core to GNOME"
> > > gnome-libs "Basic gnome libraries"
> > > gnome-games "Gnome GaMes"
> > > ==== END ====
> > >
> > > This can be converted (using a Perl script) to MASTER.pot:
> >
> > Do you like sed? You only need to do anything with POT-Creation-Date...
> 
> Personally I prefer Perl :)
> The conversions between the MASTER files and the .po files should be
> done by some admin or the package generator. The translators should get
> .pot files and return their language .po file.
> 
> >
> > I think, package name as comment is better...
> 
> Check out first if those .po editing applications strip or rearrange
> comments. Additionally, if a comment is fuzzy, where is the fuzzy line
> put (above or below or something else happens).
> 
> Moreover, you may stumble on a translator that has strong views
> on "semantics". That is, comments serve as comments and nothing
> else. Comments can be edited or discarded.
> 
> From what I see from the .po format, .po comments are like HTML
> comments. They can be real comments or Javascript code.
> The difference is the character after the "#". In your example
> below, you wisely put the "." to denote something else.
> Thus, these comments are different and everybody should be happy.
> 
> Finally, in the case the #. directives are lost, an additional script
> can add them by using the MASTER file and the msgid string of the
> translation file.
> 
> simos
> 
> >
> > # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
> > # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
> > #
> > #, fuzzy
> > msgid ""
> > msgstr ""
> > "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSIONn"
> > "POT-Creation-Date: 2000-12-02 16:41+0100n"
> > "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONEn"
> > "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>n"
> > "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>n"
> > "MIME-Version: 1.0n"
> > "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSETn"
> > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODINGn"
> >
> > #. gnome-core
> > msgid "Gnome-core is core to GNOME"
> > msgstr ""
> >
> > #. gnome-libs
> > msgid "Basic gnome libraries"
> > msgstr ""
> >
> > #. gnome-games
> > msgid "Gnome GaMes"
> > msgstr ""
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 09:48:12 +0100
> From: Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com>
> To: gnome-i18n@gnome.org
> Subject: Status not working?
> 
> The status script on 
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/status.shtml hasn't been 
> updated since the 30th of November. Could someone please fix that?
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
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Benson Samuel
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