[ZOO-Discuss] Translation tool

Daniel Kastl daniel at georepublic.de
Thu Nov 4 04:00:02 PDT 2010


Hello Milena,

Thank you for this information!
I haven't heard about pottle yet, but maybe it works for what I was
initially looking for.

Daniel


2010/11/4 Milena Nowotarska <do.milenki at gmail.com>

> Hi Daniel et al.,
>
> We (GRASS Translation Team) use Transifex for GRASS GUI translation [1].
> As a translator I am not happy with this tool, too many annoyances.
> I have tested several online and offline translation tools and in my
> opinion the best would be pottle [2].
> Besides translators' work comfort another issue would be automagic
> integration with sources. Perhaps manuals also?
>
> There is also third online tool which I use - i18n for gvSIG
> localization [3] but not yet as translator-friendly as pottle.
>
> Online translation tool would speed-up localization for sure.
>
>
> [1] http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/grass6/c/grass64/
> [2] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index
> [3] http://forge.osor.eu/projects/gvsig-i18n/
>
> Regards,
> Milena
>
> 2010/11/4 Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de>:
> > Hi Gerald and list,
> > At FOSS4G Tokyo I mentioned a translation tool, which I recently came
> > across.
> > Here the link to the project site: http://www.transifex.net/
> > I first wanted to use it for another project, but realized that it only
> (?)
> > supports .po files.
> > I tried to setup a translation project using ZOO as a test, but somehow I
> > wasn't successful because the ZOO .po files have a bit different naming
> and
> > directory structure than other projects seem to have. Maybe someone else
> > knows better about this.
> > I think it might be a good idea to use some some online translation tool,
> > though I haven't tested Transifex yet in detail.
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
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