Re: Introducing Deckard: a helper for translators

[Nicolas Delvaux <contact nicolas-delvaux org>]

Oh, and don't worry if your sessions brutally ends sometime when I'm
around, that's probably me who just restarted the server after releasing
some new code ;-)

Le 23/01/2013 23:57, Nicolas Delvaux a écrit :
> Hi everyone (and sorry for the global response),
> 
> Thank you all for your enthusiasm :-)
> 
> Various people mailed me:
>> Could you add the xx_XX language?
> 
> I added support for Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Punjabi and Tajik.
> 
> It's obvious that Deckard still lack support for many languages (just
> have a look at http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/), so I will add a bunch
> a new ones regularly.
> Each locale has to be generated on the server ("now you support this
> locale too") and then I have to try it, because some locales require
> specific fonts to be displayed properly.
> So that's why I can't just add all missing languages at the same time.
> I usually need around 5 minutes to add a locale, so that's not a big
> deal either.
> 
> In the mean time, you can still mail me if you want me to add your
> locale "quickly" ;-)
> 
> 
>> Without having look at the code, but as people already asked about 
>> integrating in D-L, a first approach would be to be able to generate 
>> URL's that already have all the info, so something like:
>>
>> http://deckard.malizor.org/?module=alacarte&locale=ca_ES&file=...
>>
>> you get the idea, right? :)
> 
> That's a great idea :-)
> 
> I already implemented a part of it.
> For example, to preselect gedit and bn_IN:
> http://deckard.malizor.org/?module=gedit&locale=bn_IN
> 
> I need to think a bit more about the best way to implement the "import
> PO from URL" feature. It could introduce a security flaw if it is done
> badly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicolas