[GRASS translations] Re: translations digest, Vol 1 #93 - 1 msg

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:36:15PM +0100, Otto Dassau wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:33:36 +0100
> > From: "Laurent C." <lrntct at gmail.com>
> > To: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>, translations at grass.itc.it
> > Subject: Re: [GRASS translations] GRASS translations to
> > Slovene/French/Spanish
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm interested for such a glossary. I've read Eve's translation of grass
> > in a nutshell.
> > Some words haven't the same translation between grasslib, grassmod and
> > nutshell.
> >
> > I'm ok to use nutshell version (because this is the only complete
> > translation) in all the files if every translators agree.
> 
> I agree, we should try to harmonize although it seems to be difficult. Since 
> we currently work in two repositories cvs (grass.itc) and svn (GDF), we 
> probably need to find a solution, to develope and keep a glossary uptodate 
> and make it easy for everybody to contribute and change entries. 

We could use the WIKI. It's very simple to make a table in
TWIKI. Later it could become something fancy (e.g. PostGRESQL with pgpPGadmin)
 
> Best solution for translators would be to have one glossary file for all 
> currently available languages included once in each repository, I guess. This 
> is difficult to achive - I don't have a clue for that.

Why not a simple table as first approach?

 english | french | german | spanish | ...
---------+--------+--------+---------+----
location | ....   | ...
...

Maybe I am missing something.

Markus