Re: Translating release notes: number of supported languages changed

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Åegan)]

Hi Jordi, Simos,

Today at 16:33, Simos Xenitellis wrote:

> ÎÏÎÏ 06/ÎÎÏ/2005, ÎÎÎÏÎ ÎÏÏÎÎÎÎ ÎÎÎ ÏÏÎ 15:22, Î/Î Jordi Mallach ÎÎÏÎÏÎ:
>> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:27:21PM +0100, Danilo Åegan wrote:
>> > Also, I'm a bit disappointed to see that the total number of supported
>> > languages has gone down from 40 in Gnome 2.8 (at the time of release,
>> > now it's 44) and 36 in Gnome 2.6.  I hope many will continue improving
>> > their 2.10 translations, so we can see better support in 2.10.1.
>> 
>> If a team doesn't translate gnome-applet-locations at all, and the rest
>> is at 100%, I think all you can get is a 79% percent. That is a big
>> pitty, because most of those strings are the less useful in the whole
>> suite.

Jordi, I agree, but we currently have no means to differentiate
between "useful" and "less useful" messages. :( 

I'll work on getting my status reports to be more fine-grained (so we
can at least remove some domains like gtk+-properties and
gnome-applets-locations from final status).

For now, we expected translators to do exactly what I describe above.

> There was a discussion on this list on how to autofill the
> gnome-applets-locations domain with msgstr=msgid (that's 'copy'), if the
> message is not already translated.
>
> I am not sure if a script has been developed in the meanwhile.

I posted quite complete steps I think, but let me do it from the top
of my head (it's that easy):

#!/bin/sh
MYLANG=$1
POTBASE=locations
intltool-update -p -g $POTBASE && \
msgen -o en_compendium.po $POTBASE.pot && \
msgfmt -o tmp.$MYLANG.mo $MYLANG.po && \
msgunfmt -o tmp.$MYLANG.po tmp.$MYLANG.mo && \
msgmerge -C en_compendium.po -o $MYLANG.po tmp.$MYLANG.po $POTBASE.pot && \
rm en_compendium.po tmp.$MYLANG.mo tmp.$MYLANG.po $POTBASE.pot

Cheers,
Danilo