Club I18N

• 1 Kumpulan File
  • 1.1 Pendahuluan
  • 1.2 Note on creating a new translation (VIP members only)
• 2 Notes on improving the translation process
• 3 Various links related to I18n

Kumpulan File

Pendahuluan

Kumpulan file-file yang utama tersedia pada halaman berikut: I18n Resources (ubah pilihan bahasanya untuk mendapatkan beberapa file). Referensi file adalah yang berbahasa Inggris.

File yang ada hanya bisa di terjemahkan oleh anggota VIP.

The format used is close to the "PO" format. Please translate only the "msgstr" parts, not the "msgid".

You can get the PO Template file at this page: I18n Tool.

Note on creating a new translation (VIP members only)

1. Go to I18n Resources
2. Hit the "Translate" button and choose the target language
3. Edit the new document, and replace its content by the POT file that you can get at I18n Tool
4. Begin the translation of the strings (translate only the "msgstr" elements, not the "msgid" elements)

All translations of the I18n Resources document are synchronized with the master one, which is the English one: when a new key is added (removed) from the English document, it is added (removed) to all translated documents. Also for now, comments or additionnal contents written in the translations will get overriden during the synchronisation. We will improve the tool for keeping comments in translated documents.

Notes on improving the translation process

• by way of frank:
  • I propose that when the english original has been edited, the translated paged should receive a note "outdated".
  • I like to keep the original english text at the top of the editor window until I am finished translating a page. Then the english original is deleted. This is not possible with the current system, because there already exists a german text. As I have discovered, this has already been done!
• Notes from Geceo :
  • Since English is not well suited for I18nResources (because the context is missing and English is highly context-dependant), we should switch to Esperanto for the master file. That way, people would be able to understand what they are translating when they see something like "Download". Is it a verb or a noun? This problem would never happen with Esperanto.
  • About Frank's idea to mark translated pages as "outdated", it would be VERY discouraging. If someone adds a comma, should the translated pages be marked as "outdated"? Your proposition would discourage the translators and would lead to the exclusive use of english in the club, just like on most web sites which are supposed to be "multi-lingual".
    • • Yes, you are absolutely right. Only the translators should see the outdated or changed or whatever remark. Another idea is to use a central page like it is used for the mandriva linux page. At least there has to be changed something, because if it is left the way it is, the translation progress will be rather time consuming and that would lead to an only for "english speaking members club" as well (Frank).
        • Maybe it should be marked as outdated only for translators / VIP members or something.

Various links related to I18n

• http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/TranslationTask
• Mandriva Linux i18n teams: http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/l10n/teams.php3
• http://www.mandrivalinux.com/l10n/
• http://traduc.postgresqlfr.org/pgsql-fr/nls.html