Translations
Translating with Pootle
SME Server Supports more than a dozen languages. See http://translate.contribs.org/ for the current list.
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Translators
Become a translator
- Before you can request have access and be assigned responsible for one or more languages you will need to register at http://translate.contribs.org.
- After registering you will have to log in and add the language and projects to your account in Pootle. This can be done by choosing the Change options under the My Account.
- Now select the three projects SME Server Console, SME Server Panels, and SME Contribs Panels under My Projects (Hold the Ctrl key while clicking the desired options to select multiple options).
- Last thing that you need to do is to select your language under My Languages. You are now subscribed to all required projects for the desired languages.
- To become responsible for the language you desire you need to request responsibility by creating a , please provide your Pootle username as well as the language you want to be responsible for.
Translators per language
| Language | Responsibles (Pootle username) |
|---|---|
| Bulgarian | stefangk |
| Chinese | gfengyoung |
| Danish | koopmann - p1ur - skovsgaard |
| Dutch | Cactus - thf - jester - skydivers |
| French | jpl - mmccarn - esibert - GrandPa - dadoudidon - Cool34000 - unnilennium - dani |
| German | Reinhold - ente - koopmann |
| Greek | MAuVE - pfloor |
| Hungarian | tacsaby |
| Indonesion | thomasch |
| Italian | matprova - nicolatiana - Fumetto - nenonano - filippoc |
| Japanese | misnerspace - sreejith - pranathi - yuka |
| Norwegian | terje |
| Portuguese | nrgomes |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | jader |
| Russian | Nikolay? |
| Slovenian | bpivk |
| Spanish | Normando - juanidada - oscartenerife - Calimenio |
| Swedish | chrille |
| Turkish | sami |
Pootle tips
To speed up your translation process follow these tips:
Customizing the interface
Enter at My account and then at Change options.
Set these values:
- Number of rows in translate mode = 1
- Number of rows in view mode = 5
- Input Height (in lines) = 10
You can select your language and projects to see shortcuts at your home page.
Untranslated words
First login at Pootle, then click Show Editing Functions and finally at Quick Translate for each file or whole language.
Also you can see the suggestions clicking at Review Suggestions.
Translation Memory
You can use the matching translations from the Pootle right side related strings to speed up the translation process. Make the necessary fixes for the non matching strings.
Checks before finish your work
We generate daily a consistency verification,it´s available on http://translate.contribs.org/errors/
Please run these checks before conclude your work:
Under the language of your choice at root level project, click at Show Editing Functions and then Show Checks to see a list of syntax errors.
See http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/guide/pofilter_examples and http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/guide/translation/commonerrors
It is clear that certain syntax errors will always be due to differences in languages. For example a question in English carries only the symbol of closure (?) while in Spanish also carries the opening (¿).
Example for Italian:
#: root/etc/e-smith/locale/en-us/etc/e-smith/web/functions/clamav:60(trans) #: root/etc/e-smith/locale/en-us/etc/e-smith/web/functions/emailsettings:118(trans) #, fuzzy msgid "During office hours (8:00 AM to 6:00 PM) on weekdays" msgstr "" "#-#-#-#-# clamav.po (SME Panels) #-#-#-#-#\n" "Durante l'orario d'ufficio (dalle 8:00 alle 18:00) giorni lavorativi\n" "#-#-#-#-# emailsettings.po (SME Panels) #-#-#-#-#\n" "Orario ufficio (8:00-18:00 Lun-Ven)"
You must fix the file clamav.po or emailsettings.po (not both) to only use one of the following translated values:
Durante l'orario d'ufficio (dalle 8:00 alle 18:00) giorni lavorativi
or
Orario ufficio (8:00-18:00 Lun-Ven)
Please ensure to remove all \n characters from end of translation and escape characters \ before each " not present in english source language. ex. \"{$acct}\" should be "{$acct}". This only happens in the consistence checks.
So, at equal English strings values => equal translations (Italian) values.
In this example (Italian) the files clamav.po and emailsettings.po should have the same translated value:
Durante l'orario d'ufficio (dalle 8:00 alle 18:00) giorni lavorativi or Orario ufficio (8:00-18:00 Lun-Ven).
Considerations
- Not use colloquial terms. Only formal XXX-LANG.
- Please DON'T use automatic nor machine generated translations. These are BAD quality. Leave human translators them make its work!
- Review the orthographic errors. A very simple way is to use Firefox with the installed XXX-LANG dictionary.
- Verify the translation in the context.
- Not to be brief words. Ej. "Ud." instead of "Usted" (Spanish example)
- The subscripts "_" in Pootle indicate a space in target.
- Not to add capital letters in where in English they are not it. Ej. "Web page" must be translated like "Página web" and not like "Página Web" (Spanish example). The intention is to translate and not to invent. For it we must be exact although it demands much greater time the translation.
- Any discussion or doubts or interchange of ideas can be made at the tab "discussion" in the top part of this page. Indent the answers adding two points at the beginning of each new line.
- IMPORTANT. If at the moment of an installation or modification of the adjustments of SME Server it detects an inexact translation or that one does not adjust to the context, please, takes note precise from the same one and in where it found it, soon to correct it. If you want you can fix at http://translate.contribs.org. Does not let save the opportunity to correct.
Pootle for developers
Lexicons for rpms in smecontribs and smeserver are automatically added to Pootle.
A patch is automatically created at http://translate.contribs.org/patches/ You then apply this to the rpm to add the new translations or update the existing ones.
We need a few volunteers to apply these patches to smecontribs, say weekly, or more or less as the need arises, it isn't difficult and we will guide you.
Language rpms for the base rpms are generated less frequently. If you would like to check your translating work you can apply the daily patch to the smeserver-locale .src.rpm to create your own rpm. Everyone has read access to smeserver cvs and you would basically follow the instructions at Package_Modification, ask if you need help.
- The English locale file is used as the Pootle template. Other languages are edited/translated at Pootle.
- Every time you modify, add to or remove strings from the English locale file, just re-commit to cvs. There is a daily update to apply cvs changes to Pootle
- Make your original FM file XML strict. Always close the opened tags (<i>...</i>). Use the same caps for tags (<b> is not equal to <B>).
- Review the General lexicon, you don't need to duplicate these entries in your contrib lexicon
Outdated contribs
This is a list of contribs that need their lexicons updated,
If contribs are not updated after the April 2008 updates the server-manager panels appear unsorted
The easiest way to update lexicons is for the Author to import their contrib into the SME Contribs repository. Contrib authors please have a look at Package_Modification for that.
Contribs known to not have translations in UTF8 format: (please confirm these have problems, if you can link to source or list maintainer etc)
Temporary fix is to delete translations, eg
rm /etc/e-smith/locale/LANG/etc/e-smith/web/functions/PANEL rm /etc/e-smith/locale/de/etc/e-smith/web/functions/qmh /etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf
- sme-crontab_manager
- smeserver-ddclient (lang de,fr panel ddclient)(being imported to smecontribs, will need testing)
- smeserver-phpsysinfo
- smeserver-redoma
- smeserver-saco-qmHandle (lang de, panel qmh)
- smeserver-squid_cache_mgt
- smeserver-service_control
- SMERPFax-0.8b1-1.noarch.rpm
These contribs are not causing problems, they don't have lexicons
- smeserver-affa
- smeserver-ajaxterm
- smeserver-asterisk
- smeserver-awstats
- smeserver-backup2ws
- smeserver-dirty-tools
- smeserver-durep-saco
- smeserver-ezmlm-web + dependencies
- smeserver-loginscript
- smeserver-lprng-monitor
- smeserver-nagios
- smeserver-nagios-backup
- smeserver-nagios-nrpe
- smeserver-nagios-nsca
- smeserver-nagiosgrapher
- smeserver-mailstats
- smeserver-openoffice-portable
- smeserver-openvpn-bridge
- smeserver-password
- smeserver-phpmyadmin-multiuser
- smeserver-phpwebftp
- smeserver-sarg
- smeserver-sme7admin
- smeserver-squidproperties
- smeserver-squidguard
- smeserver-torrentflux
- smeserver-wbl
- smeserver-webshare
These have updates available in smecontribs
- smeserver-dar2
- smeserver-fetchmail (update in smecontribs, different update available here)
- smeserver-groupmembers-panel
- smeserver-subversion
- smeserver-sysmon
- smeserver-usbdisksmanager (NEEDS TESTING!)
Simple (and dirty) way to discover the incompatible contrib panel
The following command will list all incompatible translation files.
find /etc/e-smith/locale/ -type f | xargs --verbose -n1 iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 > /dev/null
After finding the above files you can determine which package they belong to (if it isn't obvious) by running the following command:
rpm -qf /etc/e-smith/locale/lang/etc/e-smith/web/functions/panelname
And replace the "lang" and "panelname" with what the first command spits out.
To fix temporally this issue, create a temporary folder in your SME, like /root/paneltemp
MOVE those problematic lexicon files to your temp folder.
Then run the command:
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf
Conversion script
German forum user yythoss created a nice script that can do the conversion for you, the original post is here.
A new and improved version was posted in the forums by unnilennium, it can be downloaded from the bugtracker.
After completion your server-manager should be normal again.