On 27/06/2005, at 11:22 PM, Luk Claes wrote:
>You can find the slides at http://people.debian.org/~luk/i18n-l10n.pdf
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In introduction, you could say a word about adding comments to translators.
Source file:
/* NoteToTranslators: This string means this and that */
char *str=_("obscure string");
xgettext -keyword=_ --add-comments=NoteToTranslators -o $(PACKAGE).pot -f POTFILES.in
(note that on silde 9, you're missing one of the - in --keyword)
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On silde 16, you could give a better look of the variable hierarchy
LANG is overrided by everyone
LC_* is for fine setting
LC_ALL overrides everyone
You could also show how to get a fallback other than english:
LANG=no:da:en
(it does not work for LC_?? variables)
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More generally, I personnaly always use \begin{block}{title} \end{block} in
beamer to make neat boxes around the text, but that's personal.
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On slide 19, second dot isn't clear, but that's important. I'd say:
Remove the _ from field templates which shouldn't be translated (user login,
host name, port number)
Third dot: add "(old translation in templates.XX; they now live in po/)" or
so
Fourth dot: debhelper (>= 4.1.16)
Fifth dot: add a subitemize
- call dh_installdebconf in binary target
(or manually, po2debconf debian/templates > debian/tmp/DEBIAN/templates)
[Oh, damn, it's on slide 21. Ignore it, then :]
- call debconf-updatepo in clean target (so that distributed po files are
uptodate; not doing so constitute a very effective translator trap)
Last dot: add "if needed", since I never had to do so, after several dozen
of switches...
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Next slide: explain the -v flags to get some feedback about the translation
updateness
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That's it. Neat presentation, congratulations.
Bye, Mt.
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