Re: Update on Glossary part 2

[<simos pc96 ma rhbnc ac uk>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Christian Rose wrote:

> Michael Twomey wrote:
> > Another possibility is to look into using the xml-i18n-tools to extract
> > out all the terms into a po, let people translate and then merge this
> > back in.
>
> I think this sounds like an excellent solution. xml-i18n-tools already
> supports merging back translations today, at least oaf description
> translation works that way AFAIK (since oaf needs to have the original
> text and all translations in one file). It might be worth discussing
> with the xml-i18n-tools developers.
>
> Another advantage of using po file format for the glossary would be that
> we could merge existing translation memories we have made into the
> Swedish dictionary. The translation memory I have here contains a good
> deal of common one-word GNOME translations already, so it would solve
> some duplicate work.

I believe that a good enhancement would be the possibility to have
comments for the translated terms. For example, each translation of a term
to a local language should have some space to put a comment on how or
where the term should be used.
I believe the .po format allows such comments.

In database talk, we would have the following files:

1. MASTER_FILE{key_field: TERM_IN_ENGLISH, text: DESCRIPTION};
2. EL_FILE{key_field: TERM_IN_ENGLISH, text: EL_TRANSLATION, text:
				EL_COMMENT};
3. SV_FILE{key_field: TERM_IN_ENGLISH, text: SV_TRANSLATION, text:
				SV_COMMENT};
...
...

I do not know if there is need for other type of fields.

simos