RE: I18n toll wishlist

["Duarte Loreto" <happyguy_pt hotmail com>]

  Hello!

This may help a bit with 2) and 3), I hope...

I have a ~/GNOME_CVS/TRANS_MEM directory that contains a PO directory and a 
script. The script is as follows (just one line, really!)

------ START -------
msgcat --use-first -o compendium-pt_`date +%C%y%m%d`.po `ls -1 POS/*.po`
------ END ----------

It creates a compendium file with timestamp.

When I want to use this, I get a pot file, place it somewhere and just issue 
the command (assuming that I placed the pot file, named "file.pot" inside 
the TRANS_MEM dir):
msgmerge --compendium compendium-pt_20040624.po -o pt.po /dev/null file.pot

Where compendium-pt_20040624.po was my last generated compendium.

The only time I get errors with msgfmt on the translated file is when the 
pot contained "plurals", because the first header (the one that gets on the 
file) does not have plurals. That is an easy one to fix ;)

I use this instead of kbabel or gtranslator as I really prefer command line 
and gedit for the translation process.

Hope it helps you. Nowadays, using only the revised pt.po's (containing 
core, desktop, most 5th toe and some office and extras files) I usually get 
about 20% ok, 50% to 70% fuzzy and only a small amount of untranslated 
messages.

Duarte "HappyGuy" Loreto

"Don't worry, be happy!"

> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:18:26 +1200
> From: John C Barstow <jbowtie amathaine com>
> Subject: I18n toll wishlist
> To: GNOME i18n <gnome-i18n gnome org>
>
> Just a few notes on things that can/should be easier based on several
> months of working with the existing tools. Note that I may be able to do
> some of the following and not know the tool/command. Solving these would
> boost my productivity.
>
> 1) Headers in POT files are fuzzy. In general, I would think the
> following information could be intelligently defaulted:
>  - title, package, version, copyright, language-team, charset(UTF-8 for
> most, I think)
>  - last-translator and first-author could be taken from a config file.
>  - PO-Revision-Date could default to POT-Creation-Date when generated
> (since most tools/scripts set it properly).
> Having to set these manually for every single header is a drag; early on
> I was guessing for a lot of these. Those with the header already set are
> easy to maintain.
>
> 2) I can't figure out how to build a glossary automatically from a
> collection of po files. I tried msgmerge but it ran all the headers
> together.
>
> 3) I can't figure out how to apply a glossary correctly; I always end up
> with stuff that fails the msgfmt check.  This may be related to #2.
>
> 4) It would be nice if some process-translation added last-translator
> automatically to the translator-credits.

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