Opinions on the localization of the help pages

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Sat, 14 May 2011 17:08:45 +0300, sylvestre [via Scilab / Xcos -  
Mailing Lists Archives] <ml-node+2938392-436283406-394903 at n3.nabble.com>:

>
>
> Hello guys,
>
> While Scilab itself is pretty well translated, it is not really the case
> of it documentation.
> In English, the reference, we have 2393 xml files (usually, more or less
> a page). It is docbook files.
> We have translations in French, portugues do brazil & japanese.
>
> Clement suggested to use xml2po & po2xml to simplify the work:
> http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9481
> and pluggin it with launchpad.
>
> What is your opinions on this ?

Hi!

It seems that it will be problematic to make the full translation during  
the next release cycle.

On the other hand po2xml generates docbook only for 100% translated PO  
that is 100% XML-compliant.

It is good for consistency, but Rosetta do not check the XML (it is well  
known that Ubuntu docs are broken for many languages because the  
translators ignore the guidelines or use the wrong guidelines). In KDE we  
use pology+Lokalize to debug POs with XML code, but it can be the overkill  
for Scilab.

Thus, The following questions have to be answered:

1. The improper POs can be excluded from docbook generation, but how to  
send the message with the errors to the translators?

2. To generate docbooks from the partial translation we can modify po2xml  
(patches can be found in kde-i18n-doc, I can give the links if needed) or  
use po4a (it seems to me that in this case it will be also better to use  
po4a for generate POTs generation). So what the proper level of the  
translation to include it into the release?

3. If there is no translation English docbook should be shown. Is this  
feasible?

If these issues can be solved, I think there are no other obstacles to  
make the docs translatable.

Thanks in advance for the answers.

Best regards,
Yuri


--
View this message in context: http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Opinions-on-the-localization-of-the-help-pages-tp2938392p2940594.html
Sent from the Scilab localization - Mailing Lists Archives mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.scilab.org/pipermail/localization/attachments/20110514/3f86cb15/attachment.htm>