Looks like LinguaPlone doesn't match the needs at all (please correct me if
I'm wrong).

Possible solutions are:
- Finding another product that match the Gnome translation workflow
(probably doesn't exist)
- Develop the product ourselves (probably too much work needed ? or not ?)
- Use another CMS...

Seb


2009/5/6 Murray Cumming <[email protected]>

> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 16:47 +0200, Carsten Senger wrote:
>
> > Murray Cumming schrieb:
> > > GNOME has proven itself very capable of translating vast amounts of
> > > content to many languages, and keeping it up to date. If you let them
> > > use suitable tools, by letting them use .po format. Really, they can do
> > > it.
> > [snip]
> > The po format is not an option here. Plone's ui is translated using po
> > files.
>
> Good.
>
> >  But the content is translated with an ui that was written for
> > people managing content, not for programmers.
>
> Are you talking about linguaplone. I am not aware of any other Plone
> system that allows Plone content to be translated. And I thought that
> Linguaplone was developed for www.gnome.org, with use of .po as an aim.
>
> >  They normally write large
> > and often complex junks of html.
>
> HTML is XML, so it can be translated, just like GNOME's DocBook XML,
> used for GNOME documentation, which also deals with large blocks of
> marked-up content. There's no problem with using .po for this, even if
> you are not personally familiar with it.
>
> >  And even if a text markup is used,
> > texts are depending more on linguistic features than ui translations.
>
> Markup is not an issue. Markup is used in both GNOME application strings
> and GNOME documentation strings, both of which are widely translated.
>
> I'm trying to be clear: If you rule out the use of .po then you will
> fail to meet GNOME's translation needs for www.gnome.org. Any
> alternative system or set of tools is not likely to be fully functional,
> leading to translations that are incomplete or out-of-sync.
>
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