With the advent of PO files, Wine went from 12 good translations in the pre-1.4 days to 20 now. What's even more encouraging is that there are an extra 6 translations that are already half done. So can we reach 26 translations in time for Wine 1.6? More?
So I'm calling on all translators of good will to review, refresh, complete or even start new Wine translations. You will find instructions to get started there:
http://wiki.winehq.org/Translating
And just as for Wine 1.4 you can track the translations status here:
http://fgouget.free.fr/wine-po/
This site also collects reports about potential translation issues: * Mismatched printf format specifiers. (Note that these can cause Wine crashes!) * Mismatched trailing ellipsis. * Other mismatched trailing punctuation like full stop, question mark, space, etc. * Mismatched line feeds, trailing or not. * Spaces followed by line feeds. * Untranslated strings.
Obviously some of these result in false positives. For instance 'Document' is written exactly the same in English and in French so to the script it will look like it was not translated. If you send me the corresponding error lines I'll make sure they are ignored by putting them in an 'ignore' file. This way the next translator looking things over won't have to skip over all these false positives.
Hey Francois, sorry for trolling but I guess this is the time to revisit our stand regarding web translation platform (because I suspect it might be the cause for the lack of participation).
What do you guys think?
Yaron Shahrabani
<Hebrew translator>
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
With the advent of PO files, Wine went from 12 good translations in the pre-1.4 days to 20 now. What's even more encouraging is that there are an extra 6 translations that are already half done. So can we reach 26 translations in time for Wine 1.6? More?
So I'm calling on all translators of good will to review, refresh, complete or even start new Wine translations. You will find instructions to get started there:
http://wiki.winehq.org/Translating
And just as for Wine 1.4 you can track the translations status here:
http://fgouget.free.fr/wine-po/
This site also collects reports about potential translation issues:
- Mismatched printf format specifiers. (Note that these can cause Wine crashes!)
- Mismatched trailing ellipsis.
- Other mismatched trailing punctuation like full stop, question mark, space, etc.
- Mismatched line feeds, trailing or not.
- Spaces followed by line feeds.
- Untranslated strings.
Obviously some of these result in false positives. For instance 'Document' is written exactly the same in English and in French so to the script it will look like it was not translated. If you send me the corresponding error lines I'll make sure they are ignored by putting them in an 'ignore' file. This way the next translator looking things over won't have to skip over all these false positives.
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ Theory is where you know everything but nothing works. Practice is where everything works but nobody knows why. Sometimes they go hand in hand: nothing works and nobody knows why.
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Yaron Shahrabani wrote:
Hey Francois, sorry for trolling but I guess this is the time to revisit our stand regarding web translation platform (because I suspect it might be the cause for the lack of participation).
What do you guys think?
Do you mean the stance on making sure every contribution is properly attributed to its author? I don't think that's negotiable.
That's not negotiable but we still need to make sure it's at least in one of the platforms roadmaps, we can't go on like that...
Yaron Shahrabani
<Hebrew translator>
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Yaron Shahrabani wrote:
Hey Francois, sorry for trolling but I guess this is the time to revisit our stand regarding web translation platform (because I suspect it might
be
the cause for the lack of participation).
What do you guys think?
Do you mean the stance on making sure every contribution is properly attributed to its author? I don't think that's negotiable.
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ It really galls me that most of the computer power in the world is wasted on screen savers. Chris Caldwell from the GIMPS project http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:26:27 +0200 (CEST) Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
So I'm calling on all translators of good will to review, refresh, complete or even start new Wine translations.
I know you also sent this to the users mailing list, but the forum gateway no longer exists, so it will not appear on the forum unless you post it there. The forum is where most of our users are.
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