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

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?

> 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?

> 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).

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.

Best regards,

Rimas

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