Re: en_CA Proposal

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:48:43AM +0100 or thereabouts, Christian Rose wrote:
> mån 2004-02-16 klockan 09.53 skrev Adam Weinberger:
> > Canadian English does not fit neatly within any of the other i18ns. It
> > is halfway between the Queen's English and American English. Case in
> > point: in Canada, one uses a dialog box to customize fibre colours.

I love this example.

> Other than that, please ask around on this mailing list or at the IRC
> channel #i18n on irc.gnome.org if you need help getting started.

Daf and I put together a guide to translating GNOME which you can
find in the gnome-i18n module. It's in the l10n-guide/ directory,
or there is an HTML version at http://muse.19inch.net/~daf/misc/gnome-l10n/
(must get it on the Gnome site somewhere, unless it's there and
I never noticed?)

> Translation to English is a bit different from other forms of
> translation, since you in the general case would like to copy the
> unmodified contents of the msgid into the msgstr. This can be
> accomplished with the gettext "msgen" utility.

For en_CA, you should also look at the en_GB/ directory in the
gnome-i18n module. There is a perl script in there. I don't 
understand perl, but even I can see the bit full of:
  query_trans("check", "cheque");
  do_trans("color", "colour");
  do_trans("customize", "customise");

I have no idea how you run it, but adapting that script might 
save you a lot of work :) 

Telsa