[FM Discuss] audacity hindi localisation update

[adam hyde]

hey!

All this sounds really good. Great news that you are pushing all this
forward.

On the translation - is Ravikant interested in localising the Audacity
manual or the FM site? Either is very good news, but on the site-side we
have some excellent tools now for translation - both site localisation
and translation of manuals. Do you know which he is considering?

As for the Audacity app translation - the info is here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/community/translation

The .po files can be edited with an offline tool or via something like
Pootle - http://pootle.wordforge.org/

I have a little info on how .po files work in the fm manual :
http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/LocalizeIntro

Essentially .po files are text files with strings that you translate.
The app replaces the source lang with the translated equivalent on the
fly. So making a new translation only requires a new .po file put in the
right place (it doesn't need to be compiled into the app).

And as for the additions to the Audacity manual - I would be keen to
help. I'll be offline for 3 weeks, but after feb 15 or so I can
contribute. Do you have an idea of what content you are going to add?

:)

adam







On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 23:26 +0530, sophea wrote:
> hi all
> 
> i managed to get more specific timeline on the hindi localisation plan
> from ravikant at sarai today. the guy he has lined up to translate is
> busy doing an update of KDE hindi version till march and then he'll
> start on this. so over the next month i'll be putting on a push to
> make and additions and updates into the audacity manual that we want
> make it into the translated version.
> ravikant also raised the question of translating audacity itself - i
> feel that this is a bit outside my capacity to make a call on as i
> don't personally know anyone with that level of familiarity with the
> audacity code base.
> any ideas?
> 
> .sophea
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