Talk:Pootle
Preliminary
The Goal is to manage SME translations with Pootle hosted on contribs.org. The current method excellent as it is makes it hard to find missing strings and to easily replace them.
Test pootle site: http://www.unixlan.com.ar:8888
Once we have everything worked out how to interact with pootle and the formmagick stuff then I'll get something up on contribs.org that everyone can use. It would be really nice if we could automate the extraction/import of files that need to be translated into pootle but first things first.
Slords 18:23, 24 January 2008 (MST)
Formagick
we are using http://linux.die.net/man/1/xml2po to convert the xml lexicons to .po files and back
You can download from http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nhall/sme7/contribs/pootle/rpm/gnome-doc-utils-0.12.0-1.noarch.rpm
To create .po and export xml files, we have written a few shell scripts and added a translation file smetrans.py
we'll release these later for contribs authors
bugs
FIXED. Added a new module file smerev.py. This module is used only when call xml2po to convert FM xml.
- new bug to be added
- not all translations are in /etc/e-smith/locale/
- make a list of files to be split
/etc/e-smith/web/functions/support
Console
update all .po files
FIXED, Templates have been implemented with up to date strings, now it's over to users to translate them
.po file names are inconsistent, SV & FR add .tmpl.po
FIXED, in pootle: .tmpl.po is correct, other languages have been changed
Use UTF-8 for console .po files
- Pootle has problems with the current charset=iso-8859-1
- we now use UTF-8
WONTFIX, we will script the conversion back to iso-8859-1
revision control using CVS/SVN
Today I had a quick look at the pootle pages and found a wiki as well, which has some valuable information like for instance revision control using CVS/SVN: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/version_control - Cactus 03:26, 25 January 2008 (MST)
A few links for future implementation:
- http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html#po_update_sh
- http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html#verify_po_py
- http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html#svnmerge_py
- http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html#svnmerge_sh
Remarks
Translation Workflow
Draft suggestions ...
.po files
- gettext strings are in various files in cvs, currently we think we have them all in pootle as .pot template files
- we need to use xgettext to search a maintained list of files to extract current gettext strings
- this may find missing, or modified strings or remove old strings saving on pointless translations
- existing translations have been placed in pootle and merged with the templates
- this shows missing translations very nicely and is ready for user testing
- all .po files have been converted to UTF-8, they will be converted back to ISO-8859-1 when patching SME
- changes to original files, ie changed gettext strings, have to be tracked as usual in the bug tracker
- these are imported into the templates, other languages are updated from templates
- at some point we diff against cvs po files, the patch is checked and applied.
FormMagick files
- these are XML files with a <base> and <trans> pair of strings, these can be converted to .po files with some work
- some rough scripts are being worked on above, there may be others on the net waiting to be found...
- we need to clean up some inconsistencies in the english lexicons and they will be our .pot templates
- we need to script the conversion of existing translations into .po files
- changes to original files, have to be tracked as usual in the bug tracker
- the following is speculative ...
- these are imported into the .pot templates, other languages are updated from templates
- new <base> strings only have to be added to the cvs xml file for english
- at some point we script xml2po to apply the new translation back to the xml file,
then diff against cvs, make patch, check and apply
Pootle Usage
Test pootle site: http://www.unixlan.com.ar:8888
untranslated words
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".
checks
click "show checks" to see a list of syntax errors
acronyms 6 strings (2%) failed brackets 17 strings (6%) failed doublequoting 4 strings (1%) failed doublespacing 1 string (0%) failed endpunc 11 strings (3%) failed endwhitespace 4 strings (1%) failed numbers 2 strings (0%) failed puncspacing 2 strings (0%) failed sentencecount 2 strings (0%) failed simplecaps 16 strings (5%) failed startcaps 6 strings (2%) failed unchanged 7 strings (2%) failed untranslated 53 strings (19%) failed
click on one of the links offered and fix them
See http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/guide/pofilter_examples and http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/guide/translation/commonerrors
Merging new strings
Add, remove or modify strings in the template/*.pot file then click 'update from template'.
- New strings are added
- modified strings use existing data and made fuzzy (i think)
- deleted strings are moved to the bottom of the file and commented out with #~
