Re: [libreoffice-l10n] A script to help with translations

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Hi Milos,

(I'm not a translator, but...)
where are the scripts? If you have attached them to the mail, then they
are stripped by the mailing list.

Best upload them to e.g. GitHub. ;-)

Dennis

On 14.01.2017 08:07, Milos Sramek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> twice a year we get thousands of strings for translation. On the one
> hand this is good but translation of strings which we have translated
> many times in the past is pretty boring. So I have written a python
> script, which can translate strings using unique existing translations
.
> These are then uploaded using Pootle. Its functionality is similar to
> two tools from the translate toolkit: pretranslate and poconflicts. I 
do
> not use these, because: pretranslate requires pot files (we do not hav
e
> them) and produces fuzzy translations, which we do not want. poconflic
ts
> lists all conflicts, the script lists just those relevant to the
> actually needed translations (I plan to use poconflits later to fix
> conflicts).
>
> The script is attached (I hope we can attach stuff here).
>
> How to use:
>
> 1. Download existing translations from Pootle (master as well as the
> previous version)
>
> 2. translate using:
>
> ./selftranslate.py -i idir -o odir
>
> where idir is directory with po files to be translated. The output odi
r
> contains only files with changes which can be uploaded to pootle. In
> this case idir is used also as the source for translated strings. In o
ur
> case numerous translations may be missing (they were probably deleted
> when updating). You may use:
>
> ./selftranslate.py -i idir -r rdir -o odir
>
> where rdir is directory with other translation downloaded from Pootle
> (for example the previous version) (in my case additional 300 strings
> were translated)
>
> 3. Upload to pootle: zip the odir directory and upload to Pootle
>
> In Slovak translation there are quite some conflicting translatios. Th
e
> command
>
> ./selftranslate.py -i idir  -g > conflicts.json
>
> or
>
> ./selftranslate.py -i idir -r rdir  -g > conflicts.json
>
> outputs their list in the form (json)
>
> {
>   "Start": "Začiatok/Spustiť",
>   "Spacing:": "Rozostupy:/Riadkovanie:",
>   "Collapse": "Zbaliť/Zmrštiť zo strán"
> }
>
> where the alternative translations are separated by "/". Edit the file
> by deleting bad translations. (outputs of the previous two commands
> should be merged). If the conflict is OK or you do not know, just dele
te
> the line.
>
> Then, translate using
>
> ./selftranslate.py -i idir -r rdir -o odir -c fixed_conflicts.json
>
> It will fix the conflicts in the json file, too.
>
> In Slovak this has reduced the number of strings to translate to about
 1/3.
> When uploading, I always test if it works by uploading just one zipped
> file (with its full path). I've never had any problems.
>
> If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask :). The script was teste
d
> on Linux and a few python packaged needed to be installed (using pip)
>
> best
>
> milos
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