-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 March 2004 23:41, Ossama Khayat wrote: > While working on 'translate/mandrake/urpmi.po' file > today, I noticed:- > - Many spelling mistakes > - Strings that were just copied as is! > - Comma is put as ',' instead of the Arabic(?) > one '،' > - Alef Hamza is almost put randomly > - Less or none harakat/shadda used
Yeah. Same here. > I've always faced these things, but was so lazy to > mention them. > Now that it's really repeated (in KDE and Mandrake > files) we have to solve it. Sure. That's why we need to review the files... > Somethings we can do to prevent this (at least at the > time of completion): > - Check for Arabic spelling mistakes (using Duali) > (Elzubeir, I know you > gave this idea, so i'm 'quoting' here ;-)) > - Put harakat wherever it's necessary and/or needed > - Push those lazy QAC members for help and creating > some guidelines. > (Oh, wait.. I'm one of them.. ;-|) Yes sure. > - Do a quick final review before declaring the file > _completed_ Agreed too. However (at least for the Mandrake translation), a file with 100% strings does not mean a completed & reviewed file (unless the cvs commit log mentions that). It simply means that the last translator has translated all the remaining fuzzy and untranslated strings. Every file there needs a review, which should be done under the QAC to-be-created directives... > For those who want to help, and still don't have much > time to do the actual > translation, you can help us in doing a review on > completed files just by going > through it and correcting any mistakes. I'm going to propose something, in a separate thread, about how to help in translation with a very limited time. Salam, - -- Youcef R. Rahal Arabeyes.org http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFASDs5HDRR6Cd0eSYRAgamAKDpCc1lt5wN+X4xX2vjQ/ze+JYLWgCg/N82 9Z7PNuyRsyW2gunmoaYeYG4= =gVY7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
