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diff --git a/docs/usermanual/i18n.sgm b/docs/usermanual/i18n.sgm index 577e733..da4a2a8 100644 --- a/docs/usermanual/i18n.sgm +++ b/docs/usermanual/i18n.sgm @@ -1,131 +1,131 @@ <chapter id=i18n> -<section> <title>Translations</title> +<section> <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> <para> 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 available 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. 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 <ulink url="http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/linguist-manual-3.html">here</ulink>. </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 &opie;s translationfiles and can help you by 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 <filename class='directory'>OPIEDIR/i18n</filename> and do <programlisting>cvs up</programlisting>. 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 <programlisting>de</programlisting> and for danish it is <programlisting>da</programlisting>. If not, you should contact the coordinator <personname><firstname>Carsten</firstname><surname>Niehaus</surname></personname> so that everything will be set up for your language. </para> </section> <section> <title>Styleguide</title> <para> To ensure a high quality of the translations the translatiors have to keep certain things in mind. </para> <itemizedlist mark='opencircle'> <listitem> <para> The applications do not speak to the user. This means that for example it should not be <errortext>I didn't find the file!</errortext> but <errortext>File not found!</errortext>. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> Try not to use exclamationmarks. If the users sees them to often the ! looses it function as a amplifier of a warning. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> Don't put a space in front of a punctuation mark. So write eg "this is a demonstation!" insteadt of "this is a demonstation !". </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </section> <section> <title>Examplecode</title> <para> In the next paragraph you see an example of how the XML looks like. </para> <!-- <programlisting> <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> </programlisting> --> <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>. The next row is where the translated string would be. The first two messages are already translated, the third is not. This is marked by the <programlisting>type="unfinished"</programlisting>. </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 <programlisting>translation</programlisting>-tags. </para> <para> It might happen that you see <programlisting>type="obsolete"</programlisting> in a .ts-file. You should not translate these stings as they do no longer appear in the application. The translationcoordinator removes those strings from time to time. In Linguist those strings are grey and not translatable. </para> </section> <section> <title>Filetypes</title> <para> As a translator one need to know three different filetypes. <filename class='extension'>ts</filename> .ts-files are the most important files for translators. In these files are all strings which need to be translated and the translations themselfs. All .ts-files are located in <filename class='directory'>OPIEDIR/i18n/xx</filename> while xx is a languagecode (eg. de or de). In theory .ts-files are the only ones a translator needs to know. |