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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Cc: Dill <sarpulhu@gmail.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Translations [of Documentation] in Git release?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:31:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901261631.18157.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901261426350.7798@ds9.cixit.se>

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%.

[1] http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2008
[2] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-26 15:32 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 [this message]
2009-01-26 16:23       ` Mike Hommey
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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