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 <chapter id=i18n><title>Translations</title>
         <para>
                 The OPIE-Project tries to offer the support for as many languages as possible.
                 In this chapter the process of translating OPIE and its documentation is explained.
         </para>
 <section>
         <title>Introduction</title>
         <para>
-                test blah blah
+                To ensure that OPIE can be used by as many people as possible the OPIE-project 
+                aims to be translated in as many languages as possible. Of course, as there are so many
+                different languages, there is always a lot work to do. Furthermore, OPIE evolves and thus
+                most likely there are translations for applications which should be updated. In this tutorial
+                you will learn how to help OPIE to be availeble in as many languages as possible and see how
+                easy it is to give something very much respected to the open-source community.
         </para>
 </section>
 <section>
         <title>Preferences</title>
         <para>
                 In order to translate for OPIE you need an editor to edit the translationfile
-                and preferably access to cvs.
+                and preferably access to cvs. The preferred editor is Linguist. That is an application which
+                comes with Qt. It has a intuitive GUI and is very easy to use. A tutorial can be found here: 
+                <link>http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/linguist-manual-3.html</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+                However, you can use every editor which works with UTF8, for example VIM or EMACS. The advantage
+                of Linguist is that its GUI is optimized for OPIEs translationfiles and can help you be
+                proposing a translation and notice you if there is an error within the translation.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+                CVS is a tool which the developers and most translators use to get the source of OPIE. If you
+                already have an anonymous account for the OPIE-cvs you should go to $OPIEDIR/i18n and do <code>cvs up</code>.
+                If there is already a translation for the language you would like to translate you will see
+                the language code in that directory. For example, for german this is <code>de</code> and for danish
+                it is <code>da</code>. If not you should contact the coordinator Carsten Niehaus so that 
+                everything will be set up for your language.
+        </para>
+</section>
+<section>
+        <title>Examplecode</title>
+        <para>
+                In the next paragraph you see an example of how the XML looks like. 
+        </para>
+        <!--
+        <message>
+        <source>New</source>
+        <translation>Neu</translation>
+        </message>
+        <message>
+        <source>Today</source>
+        <translation>Heute</translation>
+        </message>
+        <message>
+        <source>Day</source>
+        <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
+        </message>
+        -->
+        </para>
+        <para>
+                As you can see the markup is very simple. The part between two source-tags is the english 
+                text which appears if there is no translation yet. In the first case this is <quote>New</quote>.
+                        In the next rowis where the translation would be. The first two messages are already translated,
+                the third is not. This is marked by the <code>type="unfinished"</code>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+                If you choose to use an editor like vim instead of the prefered tool -Linguist- you have to remove
+                that mark and add the translated string between the two <code>translation</code>-tags. 
+        </para>
+</section>
+<section>
+        <title>Do's and don'ts</title>
+        <para>
+                There are certain things that should only be done be the translationcoordinator or one of the
+                core developers.
         </para>
 </section>
 </chapter>