From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>,
Dill <sarpulhu@gmail.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Translations [of Documentation] in Git release?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:23:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090126162351.GA8911@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901261631.18157.jnareb@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:31:17PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Peter Krefting wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >
> > > With GUI translations we just use gettext conventions. I don't know
> > > any such convention for docs:
> >
> > There is a lot of documentation being translated using PO files. po4a -
> > http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/ - is a nice starting point for that.
>
> I'm not sure if XLIFF wouldn't be better format to use to translate
> _documents_. Gettext was meant to translate, I think, not very long
> messages in programs.
>
> Also I am not sure how much support this idea has. True, in last Git
> User's Survey[1] 63% to 76% wanted (parts of) Documentation... but that
> was out of 325 people who answered this question, with 3236 responses
> to survey in total, so numbers are more like 6% - 8%.
On the other hand, the people who would really need the translations
didn't answer the survey at all, since they couldn't read it.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-26 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-25 17:41 Translations in Git release? Dill
2009-01-25 18:54 ` Jeff King
2009-01-26 9:54 ` Johannes Gilger
2009-01-26 10:07 ` Peter Krefting
2009-01-26 12:31 ` Translations [of Documentation] " Jakub Narebski
2009-01-26 13:27 ` Peter Krefting
2009-01-26 13:34 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-26 15:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-26 16:23 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2009-01-26 19:30 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-27 7:01 ` Peter Krefting
2009-01-27 11:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-27 14:45 ` Peter Krefting
2009-01-26 19:58 ` Dill
2009-01-26 20:38 ` Junio C Hamano
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