[postgis-devel] Documentation translations

[George Silva]

Hello everyone,

I forked the PostGIS repository and I'll start our little experiment today.

I think we can safely merge this into master (at I will, on my repo),
because if anything goes wrong we can just delete the entire folder.

Cheers

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:

> 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;
>



-- 
George R. C. Silva

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