-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ivo, all,
Ivo Hinkelmann wrote: | Dwayne and Alberto, I do not get the point. Can you be a bit more | specific _why_ OOo is such a wall for translation teams ? You may or may I have one of the simplest languages to create (en_GB) and I've found the whole process dauntingly complex. There are lots of resources and pages and links telling how to do it, but nowhere is there a step-by-step guide for _all_ the steps, including extras, images, wizard templates etc. And then there is the complexity of building and testing. Without Pavel's help I think I would have given up - setting up a Linux build was not trivial; I spent personal cash on setting up a Windows build environment only to find it is now obsolete and I can no longer build OOo for Windows; forget about Mac or Solaris ... And then once it's translated, just getting it into the system so that it is available to the public... For someone starting on the task the whole process is confusingly complex. | One part of this wall is the pure amount of strings you have to | translate, so this is far away from a 2 weekends work. I hope to see a Sure the sheer number of strings to translate is a problem - but worse is the fact that many of them are really quite poorly worded and without the context it's not possible to be sure what is meant. The only way is to find the string in context within the application - and that is not easy to do. That's the grumble, but the up-side is the fact that in OOo we do have a business quality office suite that can be translated and already supports many languages. This is something I applaud and like many others have been willing to go through the pain of localisation in order to achieve success. Let's not stop here though - making the whole process much easier and more immediate is vital. What I'd like to see is a quick and easy way to build a language pack (including all extras, templates, graphics, help and other bits) on my platform of choice, and this language pack easily added to OOo on any platform it runs on. This would make the task of checking and testing much easier and more immediate. David. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDFriagH46HTEjeiURAn3xAJsEMdDnhlBHDZxILMI3UtJJbyReuQCffVuZ 54HALheDw2KJbelgf7e0Vlc= =wD+U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
