[postgis-devel] Documentation translations

[Sandro Santilli]

Updates: the i18n branch now also has the Makefile rules to build
translated documentation. Just type:

  $ make -C doc/po/it_IT/ local-html
  (just a few words translated as a proof of concept)

And find doc/html/postgis-it.html
I would merge into master unless you can see any major drawback

--strk;


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:05:51AM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> I've pushed an 'i18n' branch to github for testing gettext use with docbook.
> Could you guys please try to pull, ./configure and run:
> 
>   $ make -C doc/ update-po
> 
> You'll need the ``poxml`` package for it to work.
> It's packaged in Ubuntu 12.04 and 10.04, dunno if you have it,
> nor how easy it would be to obtain it when not packaged.
> 
> The tools are part of the Kde project.
> 
> If it works, you'll have a lot of .pot files under doc/po/templates/
> and .po files under doc/po/it_IT/ and doc/po/pt_BR/. The latter are
> supposed to be the ones that will be edited by translators.
> 
> The part where these translations are injected back to working XML files
> is still to be done, but I tought it'd would be worth putting the effort
> so far out there. If not else you may take a look at the templates and
> see if you think it'd be a viable solution for internationalization.
> 
> One thing I noticed, for example, is that the examples end up being
> in the .po files. Maybe there's a way to avoid that as I dubt we want
> to translate SQL syntax (altought it may contain comments...)
> 
> --strk;