Re: [xine-devel] How do I submitt .po translation files?

[Carlos E. R. <car...@us...>]

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The Thursday 2007-03-15 at 22:47 -0000, Darren Salt wrote:

...

> > Let me see... mmm, no; as I'm in lazy mode, I'm not using cvs, but the
> > browser, looking at:
> > <http://xine.cvs.sourceforge.net/xine/gnome-xine/doc/man/#dirlist>
> > there is only 'en', and 'de' directories. Perhaps it takes a day to 
> > propagate, or I'm looking at the wrong place.
> 
> I do occasional batch updates of the CVS repository.
> 
> <URL:http://zap.tartarus.org/~ds/hg/gxine/> is up to date; I'll update
> <URL:http://zap.tartarus.org/~ds/hg/gxine-0.5.x/> soon.

Ah, ok, you use another site. And another system. [...] Ok, got it.



> > Ah! Yes, yes, that wouldn't break translations. I found a few of those 
> > errors, by the way.
> 
> That doesn't surprise me - unless they're in gxine...

No, in xine-ui and xine-lib. Unfortunately, I lost my notes on a disk 
crash.

Ah, one: I think oxine.c (xine-ui) contains untranslatable strings (no 
gettext). Found that perchance when trying to locate where a particular 
string occurred.




> > [...]
> > And I see that gxine contains notes for the translator: well though that!
> > Often I have doubts about how much space do I have, whether size is limited
> > (dialogs and windows), and such...
> 
> Mostly, they'll be expanded by the UI toolkit to accommodate the message. If
> not, then there's probably a bug :-)


I was thinking of labels in xine-ui dialogs, for instance: I made some of 
them too long.



> > I don't know till I run the program and see it come out bad - if possible,
> > sometimes I don't know how to make the program display certain message.
> 
> > So comments to the translators do help ;-)
> 
> Definitely. Some comments were added as a result of translation problems...

It's good not to be the first ;-)


> I should add a few comments for those which appear on the console, but mostly
> it won't matter if they aren't wrapped at 80 columns.
> 
> > And a place to put our names! Now, that's nice O:-)
> 
> Once you've done that and installed the translation, have a look at the about
> dialogue box...


Not so fast! I'm not done yet!  X-)



> > Mmmm...
> 
> > I'll have to find out if the "license" part has been already translated by
> > somebody somewhere... I'm not a lawyer, and legalese is tricky. I prefer
> > not translating those things myself. Not binding, you know.
> 
> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html>

Fantastic! You are a very good source of information! :-)


[...]

Done. Uff, there are no less than six Spanish translations of the GPL. We 
'are' different ;-)



One more question.

I see strings like:

'engine: < '
'result: %s'

Is the left part intended to be translated? Looking at the German or 
French translations I see that those two are translated. But sometimes in 
xine-lib or -ui it has been difficult for me to determine, and I left most 
of them alone, considering them like tokens. Maybe there is no general 
rule.



- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson

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