[Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] Re: translations of Koha

[paul POULAIN]

Pat Eyler wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 address@hidden wrote:
> > How is the translation process being done? Is there one central message file?
> >  It would be ackward to have many versions  in many languages having to  be
> > kept up to date.. if the text messages are not in  just a central  message
> > file now might be the time  to think about  doing it thus.
> >   
> There are four parts required for translations the way we're going to end
> up doing them.
>
> 1) the text generated by the scripts.  This should you gettext and .po
> files (similar to what you mentioned above).
>
> 2) the text in the html templates.  This will be different for each
> template, and will need to be kept up to date seperately.
>
> 3) the text within images.  This will also need to be separately
> maintained.
To complete what pate said : 
in the current stable version, there is only 2 and 3 to do, as templates
are not yet implemented. I want a french version, but have decided to wait
for a templated version, as the gettext method has 2 problems i think :
* a small one : it's cpu consumming, as it adds a step for Apache before
sending a page.
* a bigger one : the gettext is 1000+ lines long, so it's a pain to translate.
And on every release, you'll have to "rebuild" it, as a string with just
1 space added won't be translated anymore.

So i think it's better to wait for a templated version, and give a hand for
it to happend ;-)
--
Paul