[etoys-dev] Translation support

[Ricardo Moran]

Great! Thanks for the explanation and the pointers, I'll look into it. I see
that a lot of code is already there, that's a huge relief for me :)

Best regards
Richo

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ricardo.
> I haven't noticed this requirement is covered in the GSoC project.
> Here are starting point.
>
> 1. Background
>     In Etoys image translation support based on gettext emulation has
> been implemented.
>     (You need to know basic concept of gettext; see
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/)
>
>     + POT Extraction:    see class comment of GetTextExporter2
>     + Translation Engine:  see #translated
>                                             and
> NaturalLanguageTranslator/GetTextTranslator
>
> 2. Problem
>     Current implementation is that all strings belong to the
> textdomain "etoys".
>     By this huge number of strings (>4000) are included in one big PO/POT
> and
>     translators have difficulty to translate it.   We need to divide
> it to a few text domains with appropriate size and inclusion
> criteria/packaging scheme.
>
>     Actually the translation framework have feature to mark class
> category for some text domain. (review class side of
> TextDomainManager)
> But this has not been used because:
>   + We haven't got agreement on what division would be good
>   + There is risk that the framework cannot decide correct textdomain
> in some case.
>      (see #translated)
>   + So we couldn't implement the division in timeline of the past project.
>
> 3. Related problem
>   SQ-139 in etoys bug tracker.
>
> /Korakurider
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > I'm starting to work on the translation support for GSoC and since I know
> > nothing of how it is implemented and I'm already delayed in the timeline
> I
> > wanted to ask you if you have any pointers on what/where should I look.
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Richo
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