October 2010 - translations - lists.drupal.org

renaming "potx"
by Gábor Hojtsy 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Hi, I decided it is time to rename potx. Some reasons: 1. It is a cryptic name :) 2. It is not anymore about .pot extraction per say... the primary output from a users point of view is not a translation template anymore. 3. It integrates with l10n_server extracting strings from source code to database (no pot templates involved in the process) 4. It does coder integration to find localization API issues in your code 5. It plans to do real translation status reporting (finding all source strings and showing you where you actually stand vs. the built-in source string finder) 6. It plans to do translation optimization (finding source strings only for enabled modules and themes and letting you delete extraneous strings) Point 6 is ever more important now that we move to one .po file per project on localize.drupal.org. All-in-all, I'd like to make this a more friendly and "accessible" tool and recognize it is not anymore about translation templates. I'm thinking of a few names, but not sure what's best long term. I'd like to use the l10n_* prefix that we established with l10n_client, l10n_update, l10n_pconfig, l10n_update, l10n_install, l10n_server etc. Some ideas that come to mind: l10n_extractor, l10n_parser, l10n_code_analyzer, l10n_api_extractor, etc. I hope to set up the module for "the long term" with this new name, so tips in choosing the best name would be good :) Thanks, Gábor

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content/node translation question
by Vishwanath T. K. 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hi all, I have create a simple website containing 6 static web pages using drupal. Around 4 pages created are forms containing various form fields. Now, i have to convert the same into a multilingual website. I do not want to create a separate page for the forms as i need only the form field lable(s) to be translated into multiple languages and not the field data (which will be in english only). For example, the form contains fields like: Name Middle Name Surname Qualification My question: Can i simply create a .po file containing translations for the above mentioned strings ? This will help me customize the form later, for example, like re-arrange the position of fields. Can someone please guide me on this. Regards, Vishy

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Issue for adding context to a string for translation
by Hilde Austlid 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hi! In Drupal 7, it's possible to add context to strings, to make it possible to translate the same string in different ways. (More info: http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7#locale_context ) I've just opened an issue for adding context to "Strong", which needs to be translated in two different ways for Norwegian. Since other languages may have other needs for that string for all I know, I'm posting this alert here, so others can join the discussion. I've also written a post in the translations group, at http://groups.drupal.org/node/101564. The issue is here: http://drupal.org/node/950028 I added the issue tag "string context", please add the same tag if/when you open issues about adding other string contexts. I don't know if it would make sense to post alerts about future such issues on groups.drupal.org, or to this list, or maybe collect them in a handbook page somewhere. Important: All comments about that specific string need to be in that issue, not here! Hilde (zirvap on drupal.org)

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Sticky nodes on l.d.o.
by Vasileios Lourdas 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, Would it be possible to be able to create sticky nodes on l.d.o.? For our l10n team (Greek), we would like to have always on top (sticky) the dictionary of common words in English and their Greek translations we created. -- # Vasileios Lourdas, # Informatics Engineer, Thessaloniki (Greece) # http://www.lourdas.name

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