On 4/13/2010 9:08 AM, mrelbe wrote:
I've just made some effort in translating Trac to Swedish. The first
attempts were made with my "favourite text editor", but then Christian
discovered some flaws ;) and recommended a language tool "msgfmt"
which however is not available on a Windows system. (There is a very
simple version of "msgfmt" available in my Python installation, but
it's not good enough).
I then started to do some digging and discovered poedit (http://
www.poedit.net/), which I also found mentioned on the historical page
about L10N on Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracL10N/
DesignNotes).
I've found poedit to be very powerful (well, compared to my "favourite
text editor" anyhow), but since the link to poedit is not part of the
current information about L10N (http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/
TracL10N) I am wondering if there is something with this tool that
makes it inappropriate for translating .po-files for Trac?
Well, it's indirectly there ... from the
http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracL10N#EditingGuidelines
which starts with a few useful external links.
The first of those, PO_Odyssey, contains an overview of some tools
http://techbase.kde.org/Localization/Concepts/PO_Odyssey#Representation_in_Editors
Kate, Lokalize, Gtranslator ... and Poedit.
Elsewhere in these links you'll find a reference to
http://kbabel.kde.org/ (KBabel being the successor to Lokalize).
I don't have first hand experience with these tools, though, but feel
free to recommend Poedit on the TracL10N page if you think it fits the bill.
Otherwise I think it could be a good idea to point newbie-translators,
such as myself, to this tool on the L10N page.
What do you think?
Please do ;-)
I will also write a "Using msgfmt tools" next to "Using Python tools" as
soon as I've fixed #8588 which corresponds to the last bunch of "fatal
errors" reported by msgfmt --check. Until then, all the msgfmt tools
will certainly flag those problematic translations as errors. Once
that's fixed, using msgfmt tools and Transifex should work flawlessly,
and at that point, we should try to not introduce any new msgfmt error.
-- Christian
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