From: Mike Hommey Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:23:51 GMT Subject: Re: Translations [of Documentation] in Git release? 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: > 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