Re: Translating Gnome into Khmer (km)

[Andras Timar <timar gnome hu>]

2003-10-27, h keltezéssel 16:02-kor Pablo Saratxaga ezt írta:
> Kaixo!
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:06:47PM +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> 
> > > The goal is to develop a full system that will replace the systems based
> > > on English Language (used noadays).
> > > 
> > > I need to have an idea of the size of the translations (in order to know
> > > how much money we need for the project). The size could be in number of
> > > words, translator/months, money or any other form that is available. Any
> > > information in this direction would be most welcome.
> > 
> > Unfortunately all information that we have available is in number of
> > messages. If someone has some figure of the number of words, please
> > chime in.
> 
> You can table on a mean of 8-10 words per gettext message.
> 
You can even count the words in the PO files. I use a simple script for
that purpose. 

http://forditas.fsf.hu/scripts/countpo

Word counting of XML (or SGML, HTML) files is even simpler:

cat filename.xml | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba' | wc -w

Regards,
Andras