[Bf-translations-dev] Translators aid

Rafael Rios Saavedra rafael.rios.saavedra at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 16:41:04 CEST 2012


Hi,



On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Damir Prebeg <blend.factory at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think that many translators are having the same problem: English
> language is contextual and it has countless number of terms that are
> having completely different meaning in different contexts. Because of
> that, It's very hard to translate many Blender terms to my language
> (Croatian) if one doesn't know exact context (where that line actually
> appears in the blender UI). And that context isn't visible in .po
> file.

  I am having the same problem with the translation to es (Spanish). I
have found myself many times looking into the source files or running
Blender trying to find where that label is.
  It is quite tedious and prone error to say the least.


> It would be very useful if we could right click on a label, a button
> or a drop box item an select "Translate this" don't you think? I've
> talked with Campbell about that problem some time ago and he suggested
> that I should post a suggestion/request to this list (bf-translators)
> but I'm sending to bf-commiters to. Implementation of that function
> shouldn't be too hard since we already have stuff like "Online Python
> Reference".

+1 to this. I would be very very helpfull.

>
> Would it be possible to create some addon that could load predefined
> .po file in blender's text editor at referenced line (like Edit Source
> does with python files)?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Damir
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