Re: Translations [of Documentation] in Git release?

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Jan 26, 2009, 16:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20090126162351.GA8911@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <200901261631.18157.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:31:17PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Peter Krefting wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > > With GUI translations we just use gettext conventions. I don't know
> > > any such convention for docs:
> > 
> > There is a lot of documentation being translated using PO files. po4a -
> > http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/ - is a nice starting point for that.
> 
> I'm not sure if XLIFF wouldn't be better format to use to translate
> _documents_.  Gettext was meant to translate, I think, not very long
> messages in programs.
> 
> Also I am not sure how much support this idea has. True, in last Git
> User's Survey[1] 63% to 76% wanted (parts of) Documentation... but that
> was out of 325 people who answered this question, with 3236 responses
> to survey in total, so numbers are more like 6% - 8%.

On the other hand, the people who would really need the translations didn't answer the survey at all, since they couldn't read it.

Mike