Back in the Sun days we used to have a Glossary that spread throughout all products explaining the terminology on different language. It was like an OpenGrok for terms.
Also a style guide, which I guess we still do, is only a matter of making available to translators. On 10/11/12, jan iversen <[email protected]> wrote: > HI. > > I would be a good idea to have a glossary.po file for each language, even > though the program does not use it. It is important that the translations > are consistent (e.g. edit is translated identically throughout all files). > > I would also like to have a consistency check, that automatically checks > accelerators and words are translated identically. I have been playing with > poconsistency which does quite a nice work. > > The idea of having spreadsheets to control sorting etc. is brillant. I used > to have documents as well to check the functionality of the dictionary. > > have a nice day > rgds > Jan > > On 10 October 2012 23:57, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does this make sense as a general list of tasks for fully localizing >> OpenOffice for a language? >> >> 1. Translate UI strings in Pootle >> >> 2. Verify translations in a snapshot build of OpenOffice >> >> 3. Verify bundling of correct dictionaries >> >> 4. Verify other areas of localization: sorting, number formatting, >> date formatting, string comparisons. Anything else? Should we have >> some standard test spreadsheets and other documents to help verify >> these areas? >> >> 5. Translate help strings. >> >> 6. Help update/maintain native language website, e.g., >> www.openoffice.org/de, etc. >> >> 7. Help translate release announcements, release notes and other >> materials that help promote the new release >> >> Any thing else? >> >> Some languages do only 1-4, which is probably the minimum that will >> give a good user experience. Some languages are enabled for 5-7 as >> well. In areas where we have multiple volunteers this might be one >> way of splitting up the effort. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> > > > > -- > Jan Iversen > ________________________________________________ > Tel. no. +34 622 87 66 19 > jandorte.wordpress.com > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
