[OPEN-ILS-DEV] TPAC localization (Dan Scott)

[Job D R Borges]

Hello All,

EG was my first big project on translation.
IMHO I found that launchpad, like any other online plataform,
that I have used, could only be used for very small projects,
or for corrections and maintaining.
Launchpad, is really solid, and has a good interface.

To work on Begin a big .po, like many translator, I prefer do it OffLine.
I use a mix of tools, LibreOffice Calc, Translation-toolkit and Poedit,
that is by far the better option IMHO.

How to do?

On Linux!
Download all .po
convert using po2csv to a work-file.csv
Open in LibreOffice Calc.
- Create a column (LineNumber), and fill 1..N (This is for re-order )
- Order by Source Col
- Select 50lines (for ex) from Source-Col, copy&past - to (some
(Google,Prompt,Bing), Online Translators),
-- compare. and choose the better. copy and past back to SOURCE col (next
from you get).
-- make your corrections. try to verify context (poedit, with po)  when you
think that are need.
- Convert csv2po work-file.csv work-file.po , adjust the header part of po
with text Editor (ex. Gedit) (copy the header from the original
you-language.po) , (po2csv remove header on convertion)
- Merge a clean po (pot file, or the en po) with your translated .po, with
msgmerge

Now you have the translated.

You can also, use GoogleDocs spreadsheet, you you want collaborate, but
participants must make rules for that.

Its only a way that I choose, after trying many others.

Job




2012/10/24 Kivilahti Olli-Antti <olli-antti.kivilahti at jns.fi>

> We didn't use the translations.launchpad at all, because over 6 months
> ago when we were starting our localization phase for EG 2.2, I was told
> that nobody updates those launchpad files and they are ancient. I could
> get the most recent .pot's from the source. Also we couldn't use the
> launchpad service as we outsourced the translations and they had their
> own system they used, so we sent them .po's.
> We also haven't released our translated .po's as the localization
> process isn't complete yet and updating those to the launchpad would
> cause extra load for whoever is responsible for translate.launchpad.
>
> The outsourcing resulted in translations, but we had to do a lot of
> corrections afterwards. Currently we are translating those .po's using
> and OS tool, called Omega. If anyone has any recommendations whether the
> translate.launchpad is better, feel free to instruct.
>
> When beta EG 2.3 was released, I couldn't find any TPAC related .pot's.
>
> But it is good to know that the TPAC issue has been fixed so we don't
> have to, which answers one of my questions, so thank you!
>
> Now we only have some cryptic parts of the staff_client left to fix
> (presumably).
>
> Thanks for you reply Dan, I do appreciate it.




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