[Plone-i18n] Calling Plone C developers :) (was: Re: poEdit)

[Alexander L. <li...@pl...>]

Hi,

A bit of background here:

We're trying to make it possible to use a tool called poEdit (written by =
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the excellent Vaclav Slavik, CC'ed here :) to edit the translation =20
catalogs for Plone.

This would ease the burden on the Windows-based translators tremendously,=
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as we can ship them a .pot file and poEdit, and they can produce a =20
complete translation for their language without the error-prone process o=
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doing it in a texteditor. (Missing quotes and wrong language settings, =20
anyone? ;)

We are almost there, and the only thing lacking right now is for poEdit t=
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write the headers back the way they were loaded, so any additional header=
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are preserved - as we have a few custom metadata attributes that need to =
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be there in Plone.

What I'm trying to do is to see if there's any people out there that have=
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decent C skills and are willing to help out. Vaclav have done an amazing =
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job with poEdit so far, so I think it's just right that we contribute bac=
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if we are able.

So, if you have a reasonable command of C, and are willing to spend some =
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time helping out the i18n people, please respond to this mail. Vaclav's =20
short summary of the problem is below, but I'm sure he will offer more =20
details and help if needed.

Source code is available from http://poedit.sf.net - and it should compil=
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on Windows and Linux, afaik.


On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:46:48 +0100, Vaclav Slavik =20
<vac...@ma...> wrote:

> Alexander Limi wrote:
>> If it's hard to fix, I can probably dig up some of our developers
>> that know C to help you, but if it's a minor adjustment[...]
>
> It's not hard, but it's not a five minutes task either: catalog.
> {cpp,h} has to be modified to read the complete header (probably as
> name:value pairs for convenience when interpreting and modifying the
> information, store it in Catalog class (instead of storing only
> recognized entries as it does now) and write all of them on save,
> instead of creating the header from scratch and filling-in known
> entries. I will eventually fix it, but if you can provide a patch,
> that would certainly help a lot because I don't know what to do first
> these days :(

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