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Re: [translate-pootle] gettext with non-en source language

This is part of the specs, even if we have not yet got to it.
Not only the online editor of Pootle will be able to display a second language to assist the translator, but it will also allow exporting files for offline translation that includes a third language. This is difficult to do with PO files, but it will not be a problem for XLIFF files. The XLIFF format permits including as part of a translation unit the source string, the target string, comments and what is called alternative-translations, which can be either translation memory information, previous translations of the same string or the translation to a third language.
The offline XLIFF editor that we (WordForge) are working on will be able to recognise that this third language is present and will allow the translator to display it whenever he requires it. 

Javier

Daniel Espinosa wrote:
Could Pootle show an already existing translation like Spanish (even one or both laguages in the front end page), to help that peaple to find a knew language to work on in the translation?
2006/9/26, João Miguel Neves <joao@silvaneves.org <mailto:joao@silvaneves.org>>: 

    So far I've never had a problem with this. The most important project
    I've seen that has the original language in Portuguese is Gnuteca (a
    library management system).

    Best regards,
                                                    João Miguel Neves

    Ter, 2006-09-26 às 17:13 +0700, Javier SOLA escreveu:
    > Christian Perrier wrote:
    >
    > >Quoting MJ Ray (mjr@phonecoop.coop <mailto:mjr@phonecoop.coop>):
    > >
    > >
    > >>Question raised on -l10n-esperanto recently: can gettext be
    used for
    > >>localising a program with a utf-8 non-English source
    language?  That is,
    > >>the thing in the _("...") has accents and isn't English.
    > >>
    > >>I hope I expressed the question adequately.  The gettext
    manual seems to
    > >>stress using English everywhere, so the answer isn't clear to
    me.  I
    > >>hope some people with relevant experience are reading -i18n.
    > >>
    > >>
    > >This is maybe not the case you describe: another case would be
    > >translating an application orginally written in a non English
    language
    > >an,d just use gettxtfor its strings......Here, I'm not
    completely sure
    > >that there would be perfect solution.
    > >
    > >
    > This is the real problem. Independently of Pootle being able to
    handle a
    > non-English source language, in many cases Pootle already
    receives PO
    > files generated by the upstream project. Gettext is necessary to
    > generate those PO files... and it might not work if the source
    language
    > is not correctly decoded by gettext... and the wrong PO files
    are generated.
    >
    > Javier
    >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    >
    >
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