Have a look at how these guys do it and get them involved: http://www.translate.org.za/
Gavin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot Sent: 26 August 2008 01:22 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Manage translation in OSGeo project Dave Patton wrote: > On 2008/08/25 2:29 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> What about researching Launchpad to manage translations of OSGeo >> projects and documents? > >> https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/YourProject > > Launchpad apparently uses the "GNU GetText file formats", > which is also what is used by the Translation Project: > http://translationproject.org/html/welcome.html > In addition to Launchpad, there are a variety of tools > that translators can use to work with "GNU GetText file formats", > including cross-platform GUI interfaces such as Poedit: > http://www.poedit.net/ Dave, The TP.org looks very promising to me. > Perhaps the first question isn't "what interface do we > support/suggest", but rather whether or not it is practical > for OSGeo to support 'a single file format' for translations > (e.g. the "GNU GetText file formats"). Yes, this is the first question to answer. I believe there are tools that help to convert GNU gettext source files to other formats like docbook, etc. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
