[Bf-committers] Localization

[Daniel Barbeau]

hello!

I was doing the french localisation. I think I have more or less 1000 
strings translated (maybe not the most important), though I can be wrong 
(well, last thing a remember was that poedit said that I was at 15 % of the 
translation).

But i ran into several problems as I exposed in a message that was forwarded 
here by Ton, back in march. French is less concise than english so words get 
out of the buttons which causes gettext to mess up. And menus being built up 
dynamically doesn't allow gettext to translate those...

Ton suggested to stick to translating tooltips. However, I've read on the 
french newsgroup that people expect more than that.

Anyway, I ended up loosing some motivation. But I still have the upgraded 
version of the french translation and am willing to work on it if the 
localisation method is reviewed. And if people report, hey! you've forgotten 
to translate this or that, or hey! that translation is incorrect, there's no 
problem: translating is quite fast.

Oh, By the way, for a moment with a few guys on the 
nwes.zoo-logique.org/3D.Blender newsgroup we discussed about opening a 
translation wiki... some were frightened by the coding it would involve... 
in the end we found out (wow :) )that it would riquire a CVS.

my 2 cents...

Ciao
Dani



>I didn't had time to tranlate french one, sorry.
>So why not using the english one, if it's the most up to date?
>Anway i wasn't aware or that. Is it realy up to contain all the string from 
>2.35?
>how does it work anyway? is there a complex system of string variable in 
>blender to swap from .po to .po? Or the lib just actually rewrite directly 
>in the memory?
>To add a new entry, do you just copy the string from blender code in the 
>.po file and write the translation under it, and the lib will do the 
>job(swaping in realtime?)null
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