wine users - Jun 2013 - Call for Translators

With the advent of PO files, Wine went from 12 good translations in the 
pre-1.4 days to 20 now. What's even more encouraging is that there are 
an extra 6 translations that are already half done. So can we reach 26 
translations in time for Wine 1.6? More?

So I'm calling on all translators of good will to review, refresh, 
complete or even start new Wine translations. You will find instructions 
to get started there:

   http://wiki.winehq.org/Translating


And just as for Wine 1.4 you can track the translations status here:

   http://fgouget.free.fr/wine-po/


This site also collects reports about potential translation issues:
 * Mismatched printf format specifiers. (Note that these can cause Wine 
   crashes!)
 * Mismatched trailing ellipsis.
 * Other mismatched trailing punctuation like full stop, question mark, 
   space, etc.
 * Mismatched line feeds, trailing or not.
 * Spaces followed by line feeds.
 * Untranslated strings.

Obviously some of these result in false positives. For instance 
'Document' is written exactly the same in English and in French so to 
the script it will look like it was not translated. If you send me the 
corresponding error lines I'll make sure they are ignored by putting 
them in an 'ignore' file. This way the next translator looking things 
over won't have to skip over all these false positives.


-- 
Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
             Theory is where you know everything but nothing works.
            Practice is where everything works but nobody knows why.
      Sometimes they go hand in hand: nothing works and nobody knows why.

Hey Francois, sorry for trolling but I guess this is the time to revisit
our stand regarding web translation platform (because I suspect it might be
the cause for the lack of participation).

What do you guys think?

Yaron Shahrabani

<Hebrew translator>



On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Francois Gouget <fgouget@free.fr> wrote:
>
> With the advent of PO files, Wine went from 12 good translations in the
> pre-1.4 days to 20 now. What''s even more encouraging is that there
are
> an extra 6 translations that are already half done. So can we reach 26
> translations in time for Wine 1.6? More?
>
> So I''m calling on all translators of good will to review, refresh,
> complete or even start new Wine translations. You will find instructions
> to get started there:
>
>    http://wiki.winehq.org/Translating
>
>
> And just as for Wine 1.4 you can track the translations status here:
>
>    http://fgouget.free.fr/wine-po/
>
>
> This site also collects reports about potential translation issues:
>  * Mismatched printf format specifiers. (Note that these can cause Wine
>    crashes!)
>  * Mismatched trailing ellipsis.
>  * Other mismatched trailing punctuation like full stop, question mark,
>    space, etc.
>  * Mismatched line feeds, trailing or not.
>  * Spaces followed by line feeds.
>  * Untranslated strings.
>
> Obviously some of these result in false positives. For instance
> ''Document'' is written exactly the same in English and in
French so to
> the script it will look like it was not translated. If you send me the
> corresponding error lines I''ll make sure they are ignored by
putting
> them in an ''ignore'' file. This way the next translator
looking things
> over won''t have to skip over all these false positives.
>
>
> --
> Francois Gouget <fgouget@free.fr>             
http://fgouget.free.fr/
>              Theory is where you know everything but nothing works.
>             Practice is where everything works but nobody knows why.
>       Sometimes they go hand in hand: nothing works and nobody knows why.
>
>
>