[Shotwell] translations site?

[Jim Nelson]

Hi Ingo,

I made a quick glance over the translations and it looks like you did
a great job.  (I don't speak German, so I mean in terms of
completeness.)

The only things I see missing are the date strings, i.e. "%I:%M %p"
and "%a %b %d, %Y".  These are special strings that use the
%-modifiers to generate locale-specific time displays.  (For example,
here in the U.S. "4:03 PM" would be "16:03" in, oh, just about every
sane country on this planet. [*])

So, to translate those strings, look up strftime and replace the
U.S.-specific time/date formatting with one appropriate to your
locale.  You might look in fr.po for samples.  Here's a good resource:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html

Thanks -- we really appreciate the good work!

-- Jim

[*] I'm exaggerating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_meridiem#Use_by_country

2009/11/30 Ingo Lütkebohle <iluetkeb at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>:
> Hi Lucas,
>
> Lucas Beeler schrieb:
>> All of us at Yorba give you our thanks for offering to translate
>> Shotwell into German. Suffice to say, without the efforts and
>> commitment of volunteers like you, free and open source software would
>> not be where it is today.
>
> Glad to! Actually, it took me a bit longer than expected (about 45mins
> for the whole thing), but thats nothing, really.
>
>> There is no Shotwell project page on transifex.net yet because we're
>> waiting for the transifex.net editorial staff to allocate us one. In
>> the meantime, if you'd like to get started translating Shotwell, the
>> POT strings template file is included in the Shotwell distribution,
>> inside the "po" directory. So if you'd like, you could open it in
>> POEdit (or a similar gettext string table editing tool) and start
>> translating strings right away!
>
> All right. Actually, it wasn't in the 0.3.2 distribution but I got it
> from the svn.
>
> What I did was to copy the shotwell.pot file to "de.po" and then edit
> that. I hope that was the right way to do it -- I looked around a bit
> but the docs only mentioned editing ".po" files. Anyway, the format
> looks very much the same, so I guess it will be usefull anyhow.
>
> Unfortunately, I couldn't really test it because the svn trunk requires
> Vala 0.7.7 now and my Ubuntu Karmic only has 0.7.1.  Please let me know
> whether everything is ok!
>
> cheers,
>
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> Ingo Lütkebohle --
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