Hi All, I'm sure there are some old archived posts on the x-comment 'language' feature. Now that we have Pootle running it might be a good time to revive this discussion as it potentially now doable.
Some background: The SDF files that we are now gratefully hidden from are used by OOo during compilation to get your translations into the application. All languages used to be pumped in but now I think only en-US and de are retained in the source code. So the source code has an idea of two languages at the very least. There is past support of a language called 'x-comments', if you look at the code these are mostly left blank if they exist of contain useless information. What the toolkit can do: The toolkit is able to take this x-comment data and place it as usefull comments in the POT files and thus available to the translator. As the toolkit can take PO files with any arbitrary language and create an SDF file. it can thus take a PO file 'translated' into 'x-comment' and put that in an SDF file. My suggestion: We create an 'x-comment language' on Pootle. Thus anyone who finds useful information that can help a translator e.g. a variable that needs some explanation, can this add a 'translation' that would then arrive in future updates as comments. There probably needs to be some discussion about the workflow. Is this maintained a a group of people and all other people with logins can make suggestions, etc. I leave that to this group to decide. There might be some simple changes to the generated en-US sdf to make sure it has x-comments in it. But that I guess can happen if localisers are committed to make it work. Why I like this: It allows us to share knowledge and improve quality by providing comments that we need. Instead of having to rely on others. It is a simple change that allows actual comments to be stored. So lets do it :) -- Dwayne Bailey Translate.org.za +27-12-460-1095 (w) +27-83-443-7114 (cell) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
