July 2009 - translations - lists.drupal.org

Starting a new language - Armenian
by info＠agnian.com 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi, We have started an Armenian Drupal community and translation project for Armenian language at www.drupal.am. We have translated about 20%. We now would like to start a new translation project for Armenian language on Drupal.org. Could you please help us to setup a new project on drupal.org to start submitting translations? Thanks, Yervand Agnian www.agnian.com

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Translation (pseudo)contexts in Drupal 7
by José San Martin 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello, As a language with poor morphology, English sometimes does not distinguish verbs from nouns. Filter, Upload, Archive, Link, Update, Post... and many other words that are used in Drupal. Other languages are a more morphology-heavy and when we translate Drupal to other languages this ambiguity may be a problem. Take Upload, for instance. There is a button "Upload", but there is also a module "Upload". There's the need to use different words. It's not an exclusivity for noun/verbs, though. "Order" is one thing in Views, and another thing in Ubercart. The shorter the string, the easier it is to exist this kind of ambiguity. There is already the use in Drupal core of string context. The blank variable in "!long-month-name May" is used distinguish "May" in the series "January, February.." to "May" in the series "Jan, Feb...". This very pattern could be used elsewhere: "!noun Filter" would be different from "!verb Filter", so that we could translate "Filtro" and "Filtrar", respectively, or "Filter" and "filtern". What do you think? Is this a good approach or something more radical should be done to support contexts? Perhaps a fourth symbol - #context, instead of "!, @, %" , to make it mor organized? There is still time to fix Drupal 7. See you, José San Martin Brazilian translator

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New release of Core POT files
by Gerhard Killesreiter 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I've just made a new release for the Drupal Core POT files, available here: http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-pot-6.x-1.1.tar.gz This includes all changes that were made between 6.2 and 6.13. You may want to update your translation. Cheers, Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkprZcsACgkQfg6TFvELooTJxgCaA6zaAtBh8aZ+8A8GRuHS0UPs /tgAoKLorRKTS/9d0y2sQPVoDqrG0CDF =dRV+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [translations] [Translations] Vietnamese Translation Documents
by Gerhard Killesreiter 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 quoctquach(a)aol.com schrieb: Hi Quoc! > I'm working with a group in Vietnam. We're creating a Vietnamese > translation base on drupal document, and other module > translation. We want to contribute our products to the community > such that Vietnamese developers will have a more choices on getting > into CMS world. > > As my knowledge, "Joomla" have a big push in Vietnam, and many of my > web developing friends don't event know about Drupal. I have > converted many of them into drupal and they saw the potential growth > in drupal framework. > > So what would be the best starting point for us on joining Drupal > community and sharing our products. There are several possibilities: 1) translations the Vietnamese translation project for Drupal could probably use your help, it does not have a complete Drupal 6 translation yet. http://drupal.org/project/vi Maybe start by posting a message in the issue queue. 2) You speak of "documents", did you translate part of the handbooks or other sources? For these, you probably should set up a vietnamese community site. Looking at http://drupal.org/language-specific-communities, there does not exist one. If you need help with this, we can discuss this. Cheers, Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpqJj0ACgkQfg6TFvELooS9yQCeIqJAJSCUmSY0T7TXOGXiCFYg AV4AoKsZ9q1Nk6J8GPUaWfXi1vNfeh+K =mmBT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Launchpad open source
by jakub＠rtfm.cz 21 Jul '09

21 Jul '09

Guys, Launchpad is now opensource: https://dev.launchpad.net/Getting May be a good inspiration for the l10n_server? -- Jakub Suchý

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translations newbie - plurals
by Prkos 21 Jul '09

21 Jul '09

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Re: [translations] Status of the translations
by jakub＠rtfm.cz 21 Jul '09

21 Jul '09

> > Check drupal.org/project/l10n_server issue queue, there are still issues > > that need to be solved, mainly the performance ones, some of them > > waiting for a review for months! > > That is unfortunate, feel free to ping me about reviews for any such > issues any time. > > I really want to get this deployed before DrupalCon Paris. What about 1-2 day sprint to get this working? Just remote, a weekend or working days. If you are interested, I am in. Gabor? :) Jakub

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Re: [translations] Status of the translations
by jakub＠rtfm.cz 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

> In Spanish I see that problem all days, there is not a clear way to > contribute, or at least people don't see it as serious, sustainable or Agreed. > perhaps viable (is still a pain in the neck). We need to translate core, we > also have to spend a lot of time maintaining translation servers. There are > A LOT of translations servers, can't we just join forces to maintain a big > one and let translators do their job? Check drupal.org/project/l10n_server issue queue, there are still issues that need to be solved, mainly the performance ones, some of them waiting for a review for months! Best, Jakub

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Re: [translations] Costing translation for Drupal 6.x
by jakub＠rtfm.cz 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

Eric, When i translated Drupal 5.x to Czech on my own, I spent around one week on it. I had some previous translations of 4.7, I guess that without it, i estimate it to 1.5 - 2 weeks. Hardware - almost none, just a laptop and gettext files editor :) (Or localization server) Jakub Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: > All, > > If anyone has good numbers for the cost to localize Drupal, or apps like > it (size of the messages catalog), please drop me a line. I'm preparing > a grant application and I'd like to include in the budget localizations, > in addition to hardware and other items. > > Thanks in advance, > Eric

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Arabic translation for Drupal 6.x
by Mohamed G. Besheer 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

Hi all Please I'd love to get or have an Arabic translation package to be used with my website as it will be in Arabic. Also can I have the back end or the admin control panel in English and the interface in Arabic? Thanks ------------------------------ Respectfully yours, Mohamed G. Besheer _________________________________________________________________ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/events.aspx

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