Re: Translations [of Documentation] in Git release?

[Dill <sarpulhu@gmail.com>]

I was thinking of handling it like the Linux kernel documentation...?

On 1/26/09, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 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%.
>
> [1] http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2008
> [2] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/
>
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> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
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