Re: i18n of Turtle files for xesam project?

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

Στις 26-05-2007, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 10:19 +0200, ο/η Mikkel Kamstrup
Erlandsen έγραψε:
> Hi Gnomers,
> 
> I also sent this mail to gnome-i18n a few days ago without any replies
> and the xesam project[1] badly needs feedback from enlightened people.
> 
> Here's the case. We need a way for describing our ontology and one of
> the runner up candidates is a subset of the Turtle syntax[2]. The
> files describing the ontology would then resemble: 
> 
> START_FILE
> 
> @prefix DC:	<http://freedesktop.org/standards/DC#>
> @prefix xesam: 	<
> http://freedesktop.org/standards/xesam#>
> @prefix : 	<
> http://freedesktop.org/standards/xesam_base#>
> 
> xesam:Audio.Composer
> 	a		:field;
> 	:of_type	:string;
> 	:has_parent	DC:Creator;
> 	:name		"Composer"@EN;
> 	:name		"Komponist"@DA;
> 
> 	:description	"Audio composer".
> 
> xesam:Audio.Artist
> 	a		:field;
> 	:of_type	:string;
> 	:has_parent	DC:Creator;
> 	:name		"Artist"@EN;
> 	:name		"Kunstner"@DA;
> 	:description	"Performer featuring in the recording"@EN;
> 
> 	:description	"Kunster der optræder på optagelsen"@DA.
> 
> <more like this>
> END_FILE
> 
> As you can guess the translations are marked with @ after the strings.
> 
> My question is : Will this cause problems or be a major hassle? How
> will it fit into the current translation workflow? 

Currently, the gnome i18n workflow can easily use .xml and .po files.
For other file formats there will be need for quite some extra work.
Thus, if you would like to use your proposed file format, you would need
to update http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/intltool/ Of course, contact the
maintainer of intltool first.

AFAIK, if intltool can parse your files, they will fit with the workflow
of GNOME.

Cheers,
Simos

> Cheers,
> Mikkel
> 
> PS: Please don't question the reasons for using Turtle, we already
> went through weeks of flame wars over this :-) Just the opinions or
> comments from an i18n point of view. Besides the choice is not final
> yet.
> 
> [1]: http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/XesamAbout
> [2]: http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/