[Etoys] Translations

[Bert Freudenberg]

There are two initial steps that could be pursued independently. On  
is gathering translatable strings from the image into .pot files, the  
other would be to write a parser for .mo files. The first requires  
knowledge of  Smalltalk parsing, the second familiarity with gettext.  
So I'd suggest starting with the second.

Yet another step would be to re-implement #translated to take into  
account the location of the sender. This could be performance- 
critical, as "thisContext sender" gets you only the compiled method  
but not the class or selector of the method. Probably the translator  
should have a cache keyed by compiled method and string, but the  
details might be tricky.

And work on making the language switching faster by not simply re- 
building everything would certainly be useful, too.

- Bert -

On Jul 7, 2007, at 3:25 , Takashi Yamamiya wrote:

> That sounds good!
>
> Anyway, a friend of mine kindly offered me his spare time
> to help about translation stuff.
> Which part is good to start? He understands both Squeak programming
> and gettext architecture. I think separating the translations into
> chunks is what we have to try at first (I myself haven't read gettext
> documentation in detail yet though).
>
> Cheers,
> - Takashi
>
> Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>> That would be really great !!
>>
>> Hilaire
>>
>> 2007/7/4, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>>> Yes, that's what I meant. So for a string in a method of a class in
>>> category "Foo-Bar" we would look at "Foo.mo".  Or, for even more
>>> sophistication, look for "Foo-Bar.mo" first, and if that does not
>>> exist look in "Foo.mo".
>
> On Jul 2, 2007, at 13:37 , Michael Rueger wrote:
>> Bert and I just had a chat about this  :-)
>>
>> Our thoughts were:
>> - separate the translations into chunks by SystemCategory
>> - generate an initial set of gettext files from the current language
>> editor files
>> - use the comments in gettext to add class>>selector>>line nr
>> - on a new release write out a new set of templates
>> - then use gettext tools, diff etc to maintain the translation files
>
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