microzift I like this acronym... ;)
Am Die, 2003-11-18 um 00.19 schrieb Nadim Shaikli: > --- Arafat Medini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I took a look at that file, first of all I agree and don't agree > > with many words. But this is what we want ;) ins't it ?! > > Yup, a discussion and a consensus is required. I'm also sure you > have your own terms/phrases you'd like to add, etc. > > > BUT the big problem is we have 16000 words I can't check every single > > word to see if it is good or not. > > Once a couple of things are settled, we can break that file (as we did > on the 'wordlist' project) into a file per starting "letter". > > Hafid, I spent a number of needless hours converting this thing from > an excel file to a .PO file (a format we can work with), I really really > hope you move away from using any microzift products and stick to open > source applications (ie. start using Kbabel). > > Hafid, please answer the following questions, > > 1. Where did you get this file from ? In other words, did you use > anyone else's translations ? Did you download anything from > Microzift's site ? > > With the amount of windows specific stuff I saw in that file, I'm > worried that it was downloaded from somewhere without regard to the > license. In short, I want to make sure we only use Open Sourced > and Free data. Do please advise (if you came up with that file > completely on your own then great :-) > > 2. We really need to clean-up the file a bit as it currently contains > roughly about 13,000 translated phrases (multi-words) and about > 3,000 ones that are not translated (I opted to include them as > comments starting with 'Skipped'). > > a. We need to move away from the microsoft centric stuff in there > b. We need to resolve the multiple entries of the same term > c. We need to translate those terms that are not translated yet > d. We need to reach consensus and agree on the translations > > So the question now is - what to do next ? Well, I would suggest we > start with answering the questions above and then we can move to see > if we want to remove some terms and/or even add more info to the > single file. We also need to know if this is something we'll be > up-keeping and people like to have this or not (I sure hope so :-) ? > If we will opt to keep it and augment to it as we find new terms > and phrases (remember this is a 'technical' wordlist and is __NOT__ > a general list of words), then we can break the file up into > > techlist_A.po > techlist_B.po > etc... > > Just let me know. > > The 'techlist.po' file is already in CVS under the 'wordlist' project's > hierarchy under "other/" (it kinda seemed befitting for it to be there). > > Salam. > > - Nadim > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > _______________________________________________ > Doc mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc > _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
