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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: More organizational stuff (was: Mailing lists)
From:       Erik =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kj=E6r?= Pedersen <erik () math ! binghamton ! edu>
Date:       1999-02-08 18:43:57
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Well I really need somebody to discuss the Danish translations with, a lot of
the computerlanguage is slang, and it is difficult to invent slang.

I have a couple of questions to the experts.

1. in www/i18n.../the po files have no headers. This means that I can't use 
msgfmt -v da.po -o da.mo as I usually do because at least on my system msgfmt
reports a fatal error when there are not headers. So I enter a header and delete
it again every time. Would it harm to have a header in that file?

2. When msgfmt reports a fuzzy translation it is easy to find, but untranslated
messages are hard to find. Is there some way to make msgfmt tell me whish line
the missing translation is in.

3. I don't know how to translate the helpfiles. It would also be useful only
to translate the helpfiles of programs that are reasonably stable.

I completely agree it would be nice to know when deadlines are, and a more
thorough basic instruction for translators would be good.
The translators are probably just like me not too computersavvy.


 On Mon, 08 Feb 1999,
Bjarni R. Einarsson wrote: >Žann 1999-02-08, 13:29:45 (+0100) skrifaši Thomas
Diehl: >> 
>> >would like to see at least a german mailing list
>> 
>> Me too (surprise;) -- And while we are at it, I'd like to throw in a
>> few more things that came up in the German team while wrapping up 1.1.
>>> 
>[snip]
>> *  In addition to the "general i18n FAQ" and the "general i18n web
>> page" it _could_ also make things easier for local teams to not only
>> have their own mailing lists but maybe even a few web pages of their
>> own, showing who's in the team and doing what, providing a mechanism to
>> check in and out, make team specific announcements, maybe even a
>> message board for discussing problematic translations -- I don't know.
>>> 
>> It _could_ also make things just more bureaucratic without providing
>> much real use. Maybe we should just experiment a little?
>
>This is what we've been doing on the Icelandic team - almost all of our work
>is done on an open mailing list, where we discuss problematic translations.
>For us this is very important, because Iceland has very little in the way of
>'traditional' computer jargon - we need to discuss things to come up with
>something people will most likely understand.
>
>Having our own mailing list, and a few web pages of our own has been very
>useful to us.
>
>We would be very happy to see an official FAQ on the KDE translation
>process, and we'd also be very happy to have a fixed page we could check for
>deadlines and such like.
>
>-- 
>Bjarni R. Einarsson                     [ PGP: 02764305 / B7A3AB89 ]
> bre@margmidlun.is -=- http://www.mmedia.is/~bre/ -=- Juggler@IRCnet
--
Best regards
Erik

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