Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Update on FR localization and terminology

Hi Rimas, all
On 20/11/2010 10:10, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> Hi Sophie,
>
> 2010.11.19 16:06, Sophie Gautier rašė:
> > I've updated the French localization on Pootle and I'm not sure if I
> > must ask for the file to be committed here, or if it will be done on a
> > more automated way for all Pootle languages before 3.3 final.
>
> I'm not sure what exactly the plan is. In any case, I don't think it
> hurts the process to ask explicitly for the file to be committed. Lior?

Ok.
> > I've also extracted the FR glossary file from SunGloss and transformed
> > it in a .po file that is ready to be the terminology file on Pootle.
> > Could one of the Pootle Admin upload it instead of the Gnome one
> > currently uploaded? Both files (last l10n and terminology) are here :
> > http://sophiegautier.com/l10n/
>
> I've uploaded as libreoffice/fr.po, and left the gnome file intact. Do
> you really want me to delete it?

Thanks a lot, you can let the Gnome one in place.
> > Also, may be this terminology.po file could serve as a basis for the
> > other languages who has no terminology currently because it contains
> > all the UI strings in English. It should be possible to remove the
> > French strings and update it with a TM, then upload it on Pootle to be
> > completed?
>
> It is possible, but I'm not really sure if there's a demand for this nor
> if this is the best approach. Your file has more than 14K strings, of
> which some are dupes (e.g. "rounded rectangle" and "rounded
> rectangle\t") or look a bit out of place in terminology (e.g. the very
> first string: "%PRODUCTNAME %PRODUCTVERSION [doc_type]"). I doubt every
> team would have enough resources and/or determination to translate them
> all (note: I don't mean to depreciate your work, treat them as simply
> observations from a fellow localizer).

Yes you're right, the file still needs some work and I need to add 
comments too. I'm not sure there is a demand also or enough resources, 
but that's just a proposal :)
> By the way, Pootle also has internal means of generating terminology,
> which could probably work at least for some languages. I just tried this
> for Lithuanian on the sandbox installation of Pootle, and sadly it left
> quite a bunch of terms untranslated (I guess Pootle got confused with
> different grammatical cases of the same term), but we may experiment
> with it a bit more later. Also, I hope that maybe it would work better
> when we have all of OOo translation files in Pootle, not just our
> additional strings.

Yes, I've seen that I didn't try it but it should help when all the 
localization will be uploaded.
Thanks!

Kind regards
Sophie

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