[Xfce-i18n] Suggested patch for the documents translation

[Daichi Kawahata]

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:30:10 +0100
Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> > Check an attached patch, that's all, I must go to bed now.
> > At least it worked for me (Japanese, LTR direction), but
> > Arabic, Hebrew must be excluded in this auto-process,
> > instead they'll have to provide a generated HTML file or
> > require an embedded pointer in the applications to the
> > DukuWiki.
> 
> The patch looks good in general, pretty much what I was
> looking for (I guess we can use it for
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366 as well).

I've committed the translated documents against the current
repository (in Terminal), with this attached patch (Terminal-
xml2po.patch), you can check the mechanism I've been planning
for the XML (with DocBook DTD) translations more specifically.

Note that, what I've expected by posting a patch at the above
bugzilla link is just showing the way for that I said at the
paragraph above, therefore it should be assigned to the
general (i18n) section rather than a specific application
(Thunar) in the first place, or you may consider each
applications have to adopt own way regarding a translation.

As for the xml2po, I found that it also enables reusing
already translated files with option `-r' (currently, French,
Italian are the ones), now in my thoughts, a sync & up2date
will be easy to go.

> One thing about the patch: You're using po-doc/LINGUAS for
> the translated documentations. I think we should should
> also use po/LINGUAS for the regular translations then.
> I'd need to adjust XDT_I18N().

...Probably we should, then all i18n related commits would
be done in the directory `po' (and `po-blah'), but rather
I'd like to know what developers/wiki teams!? give an opinion
about this. Anyway, we (developers, online document team
like Andrew, Nick, translators) can communicate each other.

Night,
-- 
Daichi

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