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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: converting translations to KDE4 - again
From:       Thomas Reitelbach <tr () erdfunkstelle ! de>
Date:       2007-09-07 11:40:44
Message-ID: 200709071340.44364.tr () erdfunkstelle ! de
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Am Donnerstag, 6. September 2007 15:23:12 schrieb Donatas G.:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007 01:24:38 Rinse de Vries rašė:
> > Op dinsdag 04 september 2007, schreef Donatas G.:
> > > Lithuanian team is about to switch to translation of KDE 4 and we would
> > > like to migrate all the translations we have in the stable branch to
> > > kde4.
> > >
> > > We might also have some files translated already in
> > > trunk/l10n-kde4/lt/messages/
> > > (ones like Dolphin, not available in KDE3) so we don't want to loose
> > > that.
> > >
> > > After some googling I found out I could perhaps do it this way:
> > >
> > > cd trunk/l10n-kde4/
> > > ./scripts/conversion/convert_language.sh ../../branches/stable/l10n lt
> > >
> > > Is it the right way to do migration? Will we loose something that might
> > > be already translated in trunk/l10n-kde4 in the process?
> >
> > i used this tip that Thomas recently posted to the list to convert
> > the -desktop files:
> >
> >
> > This is what Stephan Kulow wrote some days ago on the german list how to
> > do it manually:
> > msgcat --no-wrap in.po | perl kde3_convert_desktop.pl | msgcat - -o
> > out.po
> >
> > of course this can be combined with a "find" and a "for foo do" loop.
> >
> > And this one for the other files:
> >
> > svn up trunk/l10n-kde4/scripts
> > cd trunk/l10n-kde4/hsb/messages
> > ../../scripts/conversion/kdepo2std.pl kdelibs/kdelibs.po
> >
> > AFAIK i didn't loose anything, all changed strings were made fuzzy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> I actually used the procedure
>
> > > cd trunk/l10n-kde4/
> > > ./scripts/conversion/convert_language.sh ../../branches/stable/l10n lt
>
> The script convert_language.sh uses the scripts you mentioned. It did not
> do as much job as pomigrate2 does (did not initialize files absent in
> stable, did not try to make a compendium and do automatic translation) but
> it did a fairly good job.
>
> If I write a howto to be inclueded in the header of convert_language.sh
> file, will someone include it in the file?

sure, please go ahead :)

Thomas

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