Re: [phpesp-dev] Translations

[Matthew G. <mat...@gm...>]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 13:44 -0500, Bishop Bettini wrote:
> I personally prefer to use the gettext tools and manipulate .po files  
> by hand, but Launchpad's interface is straightforward and easy to use.  
>   I am sure our translators will appreciate it.
> 
The is the beauty of Launchpads service, you can work with .po and
upload or use a nice web UI.  I hope we might see more up to date
translations if it's dead easy to do it.  Also, Lauchpad helps you keep
your translations current even when you don't have a translator
available, using translations of the same string from other projects.

> What problems do you see with the translations in phpESP? 
>  The number  of translations, the quality of the translations, the
> code's use of  
> translations?
Quality.
>   I personally see some strange use of _() in the code,  
> specifically large blocks of text in _() calls.  In other heavily  
> multi-lingual projects I've worked in, we've used _() for small bits  
> of text in the code, but put most of the UI text into template files  
> outside the code. 
It would be nice if we did use templates.  But since we don't(yet) and I
hope since we only have a few large blocks like this, it can be managed
as is?

>  It's all been very modular, but not so modular as  
> to drive translators crazy (either by having zillions of files or by  
> breaking context).  It's certainly a tight line to walk.
> 
> Not that I'm suggesting it should be done that way, but I've seen it  
> effectively used on projects from 10k to 10M lines of code.
> 
> bishop
> 
> Quoting Matthew Gregg <mat...@gm...>:
> 
> > Translations have always been a problem with phpESP(probably most
> > projects as well).  I'm trying out the translation service provided by
> > Canonical on Launchpad.  You upload a template(.pot) and users can
> > contribute translations easily using a web interface.  It also allows
> > you to get suggested translations from other projects using Launchpad.
> > I have uploaded all the current translations(.po's) we have and awaiting
> > them to be imported.   I'm not sure you can see this without an account
> > and permissions but here is the site:
> > https://translations.launchpad.net/phpesp
> >
> > If this works out well, I would like to use this as the official repo.
> > for phpESP L10n files and hopefully we can get people to fix and
> > contribute translations much more easily.
> >
> >
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