Re: CVS-Georgia

[Vladimer Sichinava <vlsichinava gmail com>]

Clytie Siddall wrote:
> ááááááááá! Vladimir :)

Dear Clytie, kiss You Simply!
> On 22/02/2006, at 1:17 AM, Vladimer Sichinava wrote:
>
> > > I would also be willing to commit some files for the Georgian team 
> > > until they get their CVS working.
> > ;)Thank You Clytie!
> >
> > http://svn.inet.ge/svn/ka_GE/gnome/
> >
> > Here are our fresh translations.
> > And thank you for committing!
>
> My pleasure. :)
>
> People here have helped me a lot, so I want to help in return. :)
>
> Vladimir, first we need to look at your PO files, especially at the 
> header section.
>
> In the evolution ka.po file, your header looked like this:
You are super!
> ____
> # translation of evolution.po to
> # translation of ka.po to
> # Georgian translation for evolution
> # Copyright (c) (c) 2005 Canonical Ltd, and Rosetta Contributors 2005
> # This file is distributed under the same license as the evolution 
> package.
> # Alexander Didebulidze <didebuli in tum de>, 2005, 2006.
> # <didebuli in tum de>, 2006.
> #  <didebuli in tum de>, 2006.
> #
> #
> msgid ""
> msgstr ""
> "Project-Id-Version: evolution\n"
> "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
> "POT-Creation-Date: 2006-02-09 22:45+0100\n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: 2006-02-20 20:01+0100\n"
> "Last-Translator: \n"
> "Language-Team:  <ka li org>\n"
> "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0X-Generator: KBabel 1.10.2"
> "X-Generator: KBabel 1.11.2\n"
> ____
>
> 1.
> â There are some extra lines, and some missing information.
> â I would suggest using the copyright symbol  since you have the 
> support of the UTF-8 character set.
> â You need the name of the language team.
> â You need to fill in the name and email address of the last 
> translator to work on that file.
>
> I've edited the header, which now looks like this:
> ____
> # Georgian translation for Evolution
> # Copyright  2005 Canonical Ltd, and Rosetta Contributors 2005
> # This file is distributed under the same license as the evolution 
> package.
> # Alexander Didebulidze <didebuli in tum de>, 2005, 2006.
> #
> #
> msgid ""
> msgstr ""
> "Project-Id-Version: evolution HEAD\n"
> "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
> "POT-Creation-Date: 2006-02-09 22:45+0100\n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: 2006-02-20 20:01+0100\n"
> "Last-Translator: Alexander Didebulidze <didebuli in tum de>\n"
> "Language-Team:  Georgian <ka li org>\n"
> "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)"
> "X-Generator: KBabel 1.11.2\n"
> ____
So I've talked with Signor Gia Shervashidze, so I can write down 
everything with a major security :)

In georgian there is no plural forms,

One Plate, 3 Plates, many Plates.  - English
Erti tepshi, 3 tepshi, bevri tepshi. - Tepshi - Plate , remains everytime.
so your correct Header example is:

"Project-Id-Version: ekiga HEAD\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2006-02-20 08:22+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2006-02-21 11:56+0100\n"
"Last-Translator: Vladimer SIchinava <alinux siena linux it>\n"
"Language-Team: Georgian <gnome inet ge>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;


But,every time there is:  msgstr[0] "" msgstr[1] ""
We must manually change them to normal: msgstr ""
(or there is other solution?)

So that's the story of georgian translation :)





> which I hope is OK with you. :)
>
> Maybe your editor is inserting too many lines. You might need to 
> change your preferences.
>
> I just make a model of my correct PO header, then copy it in every 
> time, except for the dates. A lot of the information doesn't change, 
> so that saves time.
>
> 2.
> Vladimir, there is one remaining problem. Your file won't pass the 
> gettext checks (msgfmt -cv) because the plurals header is incorrect 
> for your language. In fact, it's the plurals header for languages like 
> mine, which don't have plurals in that sense. I'm sure your language 
> doesn't work like mine for plurals. We say, "one book, two book". 
> Georgian doesn't do that, does it?
>
> The correct plurals header for your language is not yet listed at the 
> Translate Wiki:
>
> http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms
>
> but if you can tell me what it is, I will include it.

"Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;

Like your language :)
> (I'll do that for any other languages not yet represented, so people, 
> please feel free to send me your language name, language code and 
> plurals expression. And chocolate, of course. Always feel free to send 
> chocolate.)
>
> I tried guessing one or two plurals expressions from other languages 
> geographically close to yours, but gettext would not accept them. :(
>
> Please tell me your plurals header, and I'll try again to commit your 
> file. The Gnome server runs the msgfmt check over all files submitted, 
> which is a good thing, because it catches any errors you forget to 
> fix. But it means you can't submit a file with any errors remaining.
You can see it UP :)
> 3.
> The file is not yet complete: there are untranslated and fuzzy 
> strings. Do you want me to submit all files, whether they are complete 
> or not?
As you are an expert (than me), you decide, 100% persent files -Yes, + 
important files like GDM are ok. Because I've translated the main interface.
And work is in progress :)
> 4. One I can start submitting files, keep an eye on:
>
> http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.14/ka/desktop/index.html
>
> and the other Georgian status pages. You will see some good changes!

Clytie Kiss You :) And thank you!
> from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm 
> Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN