gEDA-dev: Launchpad available for gEDA translations

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2-at-NOSPAMcam_dot_ac_dot_uk>]

Dear all,

This short note is just to inform you that the current .pot and .po
files from gEDA and gattrib are now available in launchpad's Rosetta
translation system, here:

https://translations.launchpad.net/geda/

There is no official adoption of launchpad / rosetta by the gEDA
project, so if translators use launchpad / rosetta, please let us know
here that changes have been made, and we can be sure to merge back
the .po files into our upstream sources.

I will try to monitor things and ensure any contributions from
3rd-parties are not lost.


When uploading the translations, one thing I had to do to smooth the
process was to remove country codes from languages where we listed a
"default" country, e.g:

de_DE
es_ES
fr_FR
it_IT
ja_JA
nl_NL

I missed af_ZA (as it isn't of the obvious pattern), but am told that
just "af" should be used, and that the exceptions are Chinese (zh_CN is
Simplified whereas zn_TW is Traditional) and English (U.S. English is
the starting language, and en_GB is its translation to U.K. English**).

(** Peter notes "you Americans" have stolen "our" language ;))

On advice from the translation team, we should probably make these
changes in the repository as well. I presume this gives opportunity for
inheritance on systems where a country-code does not match exactly, but
we already have a related translation.

If we upload files in violation of this, they get put in a queue for
administrator fixup, which delays things, so at the very least, when new
translations are uploaded, they need renaming first.


Bert:

Is "hattrib" a typo?

#: ../data/geda-gattrib.desktop.in.h:1
msgid "Manipulate component attributes with gattrib"
msgstr "Manipuleer componenten attributen met hattrib"

I've changed it to "gattrib" in launchpad, and marked the "needs review"
flag.

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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