Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Localization of LibreOffice in Amharic Language (Ethiopian)

Hi Samson;

Þann þri  7.feb 2012 20:19, skrifaði sam:
> I loveLibre Office and I want to have it in my Language
> Which is Amharic (Ethiopian)
>
> There are two ways to localize Libre Office. The first one
> is in pootie online or download the po files and do it
> offline. I choose the offline and download and translated
> over 80% of it. a few days ago I saw this message.
>
> Don't work on Libre Office 3.3 localization any more.
> Translation of Libre Office 3.5 started.

This means that no more translation updates will be 
published for LO 3.3, your effort will be waisted unless 
Andras could merge your translations over to LO 3.4 and 3.5. 
Many strings will be more/less different though.

> I come across this e-mail which says you can upload your
> translation. but it doesn't provide any information. I am
> new to this. would you be so kind to guide me through this
> step by step please?

You could either use a script to achieve this, or simply use 
a translation memory (TM) to transfer your strings. Software 
like Virtaal and Lokalize will do (and some more).

For doing this with Lokalize here are some tips: Make a 
project for LO 3.3, configure all necessary info, then let 
Lokalize read all your project files into translation 
memory. Select all folders in the project window, then right 
click and choose 'Add to translation-memory'.
Pull all LO 3.5 project files from Pootle in one Zip-file, 
unzip the folder structure into its own folder.
Again, in Lokalize create a project for LO 3.5 (using the 
same TM, which is the default I think) and open it in the 
main window. For each of the files you can open them and 
choose Tools/Fill in all exact suggestions (and mark as 
fuzzy). Review and save the file.
Beware that this procedure only fills in 100% identical 
translation strings, when reviewing other strings you may 
get suggestions for _similar_ strings, which may be easy to 
adapt into your project.

There are also other ways to do this, but here I just 
described one quite simple procedure.

Good luck for your work.

Best regards,

Sveinn í Felli


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