Re: Gnome Internationalization: A proposal

[Filipe Maia <fmaia gmx net>]

On 22 Mar 2002 12:27:08 -0600
Edward Mbugua Kamau <emkamau@afrocenter.com> wrote:

> I'm glad a bunch of people have picked up on this. It really looks like
> it will get done. 
> 
> Whe I proposed having a database of .po strings , thats all I was
> thinking of, but it seems so much more can be done. Anyway here is the
> basic set up as I see it.
> 
> My main problem was getting the .po strings into a database`. It seems
> Filipe is dealing with that. That will be really great.As I see it, the
> databse should at least have:
> 
> 1. the package name (.po file the string comes from)
> 2. the location of the string in the .po file. This could be given by
> the '#: dedit.desktop.in.h:1' line in the .po file
> 2. the msgid
> 
>  for example the .po file name (this is for dedit)  and following info:
> 
> #: dedit.desktop.in.h:1
> msgid "DEdit"
> msgstr ""
> 
> In addition the database should accept and store the msgid translations
> made over the web UI`. This could just be a separate table with all the
> translated strings in it.
> 
> There should also be a field for marking the translations as accepted by
> the language maintainer. 
> 
> It would also be nice if the databse is structured in such a way that
> the accepted msgstr and their msgid and location can be extracted from
> thedatabase and the .po file created automatically from that info.
> 
> As a basic starting point all the processing of translations will be
> done off line by the language maintainer. All the database and web UI
> will help in is gathering translations from language speakers at large.
> The language maintainer will then go over those translations and pick
> the best for inclusion in the actual .po files.
> 
> In short what we need first is a basic system which can then evolve to
> include all the other necessary stuff.

The first version of the database creator program is almost done.
 


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