Rafaella,
Thank you very much for the comments.
I was a little confused because it seems that for each different
community project SUN manages, there is a different way to localize :)
I would like to know if it is possible to provide "us" (or at least
me...) with the .sdf strings _before_ the current modification so as
to be able to create a correct TMX file.
If you could create that TMX yourself and make it available it would
be even better. That TMX would contain the state of the corpus before
the modifications (2.2.1) and would allow translators who work with
TMX supporting tools (including Sun's own OLT, or OmegaT to name only
the free ones) to work efficiently with the current files.
For you information, I decided to create a .pot file out of the .sdf
so that I was sure there were no "pseudo-translated" strings in
French and I created a "pseudo-tmx" with the original contents that I
use to match every source string with.
This solution is better than hand editing the whole file but the
whole thing would be even more efficient if instead of a pseudo-tmx I
had the real thing based on the 2.2.1 contents.
Do you think it is possible to get that from SUN ?
Regards,
Jean-Christophe
On 18 juin 07, at 17:03, Rafaella Braconi wrote:
Hi Jean- Christophe,
in the Q&A session you may find the answer to your question already:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Translation_for_2.3#Q_.26_A
Also, please see my comments inline:
Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
I realized a few days ago that the .sdf (at least for the fr
project) for the coming 2.3 contains weird stuff without much of
an explaination as to how to differenciate the different parts.
1) in some places the target part is made of what would be a
"fuzzy" in PO, but without specific notification of the fuzzy
character
what you see is the previous translation. This means that in the
meanwhile the English text has been updated and since in most cases
the old translation contains terminology which can be reused for
updating the string, we decided to keep as a sort of *suggestion*
the previous translation instead of overwriting it with the English
text.
2) in some places it seemingly contains exact matches
sometimes the English text has been updated in such a way that this
is not translation relevant. For example a typo in the English text
has been corrected. Since the authors may not necessarily know if a
change is translation relevant or not, they flag the English
updated text has updated and it gets extracted as *changed* strings
when we prepare the files to send to translation.
3) in some other places it contains the source English string
when the English text is completely new. This means that this is
the first time the strings gets translated.
In the case where the fuzzy is present, the reference links are
sometimes totally different. Which means that besides for the
actual editing of the translation, it is also necessary to edit
the links.
Yes, in this case the translation needs to be updated including
links, tags, variables etc....
I wonder about the utility of such a mechanism especially since
there is no way to differenciate between the 3 patterns in
the .sdf itself.
The utility is that in may cases the previous translation contain
terminology that can be reused to update the text....
It seems to me it would have been faster to _not_ insert fuzzies
at all and to provide a complete TMX of the existing OOo contents
instead.
They are not fuzzies.....
Right now, if one wants to create a TMX out of the .sdf files
(either with the Translate toolkit or with Hearstome translation
suite, I suppose there are other ways though), it is impossible
to have the source strings corresponding to the fuzzy target and
thus the matching in a TMX suppotirting CAT tool will not be of
much use.
You cannot create TMX out of the sdf files provided because the
translated strings contained in it are not final translations....
Is there still a way to get SUN to provide the l10n teams with TMX
of the existing contents, similarly to what we can get through
the SunGloss system ?
We could provide you with an sdf files containing the final
translations if that helps....
Rafaella
(FYI, the NetBeans team is provided with TMX and that greatly
enhances the localization process.)
Jean-Christophe Helary
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