Talk:Translations

bugs

Bugs related to Pootle based translations are linked here

• Bugzilla:3782

Translation Workflow

Draft suggestions ...

.po files

• gettext strings are in various files in cvs

we use xgettext to creates .pot files from the original files to by extracting gettext strings [1]

developers load these into pootle as .pot template files using subversion

• .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 template .pot files using subversion

• at some point we diff updated po files against cvs po files, the patch is checked and applied.

FormMagick files

• these are XML files with a <base> and <trans> pair of strings

we create .po files from the english versions

using subversion we load these into pootle as .pot template files

• changes to original files, have to be tracked as usual in the bug tracker

<base> strings only have to be added (or removed) to the cvs xml file for english

• at some point we apply the new translation back to the xml file

then diff against cvs, make patch, check and apply

[1] smeserver-locale.src.rpm smefetchpo