Re: [Canorus-devel] norwegian/danish and other translation

[<can...@li...>]

Hi,

Currently I only know of one tool being able to work on Qt ts
(translation) files: That is the linguist. As our build system takes
care of creating the translation files you don't have to manually
use the tools the create them. Be aware though that every time you
"make" the project the files will be updated. This can mean that you
find obsolete entries in the file and new to be translated parts in the
file when you update from SVN.

In search for alternatives tools especially because handling of phrase files
for translations are extremely problematic (the dialog for editing phrases
blocks the entire application :-( ) I found a web tool:

http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index

I leave it up to Matevz if we should add such a translation "service" to the
Canorus Wiki / Homepage.

The translate project itself provides tools for converting the ts files to
po. See http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/index for more
informations. This will certainly be helpful for all those NoteEdit translation
files where you can fetch some of the music terms needed in Canorus too in an
easier manner. Though I'd like to avoid ts -> xliff -> edit -> xliff -> ts
route, I won't object if the tools work fine with qt 4.3 (after all qt does
include their dtd for the ts files, so using translate-tools should work, we
just need to make a tutorial or find one on the web). It would also be possible
to create po files instead of xliff files.

The tool kbabel would probably be the best replacement (it has even
experimental code for xliff format ). Maybe they will also support ts/qph
format somewhen in the future. The other tools I looked up for xliff are not
bad but very generic and require a translation memory server or directory
(something similar to qph phrase book).

As kbabel also supports po files this could help you with the old noteedit
translation files too. I haven't made any further research into that topic though.

Best,

Reinhard

can...@li... schrieb:
> Hello.
> I'm surposed to translate Canorus into norwegian.
> I'm just wondering:
>  - do I have to wait until all features are added and then translate.
>  - or can start translating some of the text now and wait for the changes.
>  - how does it work then when the language-file is changed. how can I
> review the changes and then translate only the changed parts?
> 
> What translation-program do you prefere?
> 
> Dag Henning
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