Re: Localisation Guide

["Duarte Loreto" <happyguy_pt hotmail com>]

   Hello!

Now that I'm finishing my revisions of DEV_LIBS and DESKTOP modules, I 
created my first compendium and tested it on the Dasher module. I do think 
that compendiuns can help a lot to generate good quality translations, with 
uniformizing the translation terms and saving time to the translators as at 
least some strings don't have to be translated again and again.

I went looking for info on compendium and only found a reference to it on 
the 5.2 section. The mention was telling that it is possible to create but 
it didn't talk much more about it.

I think that would help to have there an explanation of what is a 
compendium, how to generate it (see my 1-line script below) and how to use 
it. Also that as many more po files are used for the compendium generation, 
the most likely new pot's will be filled.

My update_comp.sh script goes like this
msgcat --use-first -o compendium-pt_`date +%C%y%m%d`.po `ls -1 POS/*.po`
I have all the Portuguese po files inside the POS/ directory.

A single line command or using the compendium is also better
msgmerge --compendium compendium-pt_20040105.po -o file.po /dev/null 
file.pot

What do you think? Is there any problem on using compendiuns for non-latin 
scripts? I know that this is mostly a *NIX functionality, but better those 
translators know then none knowing just because it doesn't work in Windows 
and some may be translating from Windows (by the way... maybe Cygwin... ;)

Be Happy!

Duarte "HappyGuy" Loreto

"Don't worry, be happy!"

>Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 23:09:25 +0000
>From: Telsa Gwynne <hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk>
>To: gnome-i18n@gnome.org
>Subject: Re: Localisation Guide
>
>On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:08:24PM +0100 or thereabouts, Åsmund Skjæveland 
>wrote:
> > > The long-promised guide that Telsa and I have been working on has 
>found
> > > its way into GNOME CVS. It still has quite a few FIXMEs and gaps.
> > > Please take the time to send us your thoughts, or even patches. :)
>(...)
>End of gnome-i18n Digest

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