Re: Translations for LSR project

["Peter Parente" <parente gmail com>]

Thanks for the info. We can definitely look at how well the standard
intltool-update --pot commands works as compared with pygettext.py. My
guess is that intltool misses Python multiline strings, but we don't
have any of those that are translatable anyways.

If I get the standard tools working with LSR, should I just email the
list again?

Pete

On 6/1/06, Christian Rose <menthos gnome org> wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Peter Parente <parente gmail com> wrote:
> > We've recently imported a new project called Linux Screen Reader
> > (http://live.gnome.org/LSR) into cvs.gnome.org. The code is set up to
> > support internationalization using autotools. I was informed that
> > gnome.org has a team of translators that can provide localized strings
> > for any project on request. I think that's great and would love to
> > have LSR localized.
> >
> > The LSR code is in Python which means use of the pygettext.py script
> > is preferred over the standard gettext program. We have automated the
> > use of pygettext.py and the generation of POTFILES.in using a script
> > in our CVS module. We have documentation on how to use this script at
> > http://live.gnome.org/LSR/PyautoGuide#i18n.
>
> Translation by the GNOME Translation Project requires the use of the
> gettext and intltool tools, so that for example the pot file can be
> generated simply using "intltool-update --pot" inside the po
> directory. Until that succeeds, translation of the module by the GTP
> is unfortunately a no-starter.
>
> These requirements are there not only because our automated online
> translation status tracking tools assume this behavior in all modules,
> but also since all written documentation for our many hundreds of
> translators describe this process. Many of our translators are
> linguists and not programmers, so any module with a diverging behavior
> isn't likely to get much attention.
> For these reasons we unfortunately cannot currently list any module at
> all which doesn't meet the intltool compatibility requirement.
>
> There are many pieces of software in GNOME CVS which are written in
> Python and which work with intltool just fine, so while I do not know
> any of the details in this case, it still sounds very strange that the
> use of Python would require a different tool than gettext.
>
> I don't know if the following page can be of any help:
> http://www.gnome.org/~malcolm/i18n/
>
>
> Regards,
> Christian