Hi Pierre,

PA> On Friday 24 January 2003 16:38, A.Pruszynski wrote:
>> 1. See which translation is most complete
>> http://www.abisource.com/dev/strings/strings.html
>> nn-NO 98%
>> pl-PL 97%
>> it-IT 97%
>> Let it be nn-NO.
>> 2. Copy nn-NO.strings to your zz-ZZ.strings
>> 3. Replace strings inside zz-ZZ.strings file with zz-ZZ translation in
>> a simple text editor. If you rerun Abi you can see your work at onhce.

PA> The problem with that is that you will get tired of replacing the over a 
PA> thousand Norwegian strings with Zemblan, or you will run into a string you 
PA> don't know how to translate into Zemblan and leave the Norwegian in there. I 
PA> still have some French strings left in the Lojban file because of this.

Right. Writing this I didn't know about the 'AbiWord --dumpstrings' method for
obtaining a full set of English strings. It's usefull when you have
AbiWord installed - starting with translation. If you want to work on
"fresh" strings you have to use information from xap_, ap_strings.id.h.

PA> You may also want to mention po editors. I use KBabel. These prevent syntax 
PA> errors from creeping into your po files.

Right. It's usefull. I have tried this. But now I prefer editing
.strings file by hand. Its syntax is simple, and (most usefull) I can
work with running AbiWord and _see_results_ of translation just after
translation.

Andrzej

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