Re: [Translation-i18n] RFC: the Translation Project should work on Xt applications localization too

[Samuel T. <sam...@en...>]

Kevin Scannell, le Mon 13 Nov 2006 10:01:10 -0600, a =E9crit :
> Ar Aoine 10 M=ED na Samhna 2006 17:45, scr=EDobh Samuel Thibault:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The Translation Project is quite great, but it looks like it has been
> > missing Xt applications (like xfig, gv, xterm, ...) sofar, though
> > software support is already there. The translation teams just need to
> > work on translating labels from /etc/X11/app-defaults.  For instance,
> > the attached file should be used for french localization of XTerm.
> >
> > So as to use the existing nice software which work on .po files, here
> > is a sort of shell script that extracts such to-be-localized labels
> > into a C program with these labels tagged for translation.  Then the
> > usual gettext loop can be used for producing .mo files.  The C progra=
m
> > may eventually be just compiled and run for each language, producing
> > appropriate resource files.
> >
> > What do people think about this?
>=20
> I think it would be great to have programs like these included in
> the TP.   Our team (Irish) is very much committed to the PO=20
> framework for maintaining our translations and translation memory,
> and so I spend (waste) a lot of time converting ad hoc localization
> schemes to and from PO format (e.g. Moodle, NSIS, Skype, Joomla, .....)=
=20
>=20
> Just a couple of questions:
> 1.  How should the translated PO files be transmitted back to the
> xfig/gv/xterm maintainers?   Should the TP Robot be extended to
> perform the conversion back app-defaults format before emailing
> the translations to the maintainers?

That would save them the burden to do it themselves, yes.

> 2. Is it true across all app-defaults files that the localizable elemen=
ts
> are given names ending in "[Ll]abel"?    I see a few counterexamples
> in my /etc/X11/app-defaults directory (e.g. some tooltips ending
> in ".Tip", window titles ".Title", etc)

Well, Label was the most obvious examples (in the case of XTerm, that's
the only one).  I can dig in the Xt reference for sorting out a fairly
exhaustive list of such elements.

Samuel