Providing context (was: Re: Limping on with GIMP)
On 13/09/2005, at 5:33 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
On Tue, September 13, 2005 06:45, Clytie Siddall wrote:
BTW, if someone wants to add some translator comments to the GIMP
source code to reduce ambiguity of such strings, I'd very much
welcome
such an effort and would take care of applying such a patch as
fast as
possible.
Is this really our responsibility? I'm interested.
I'd say it's the responsability of the maintainers and the
translators:
the maintainers might not know/think that one particular string is
difficult to translate. However, it's true that maintainers probably
have a better idea of what should be written in the comments...
Thanks, Vincent, that helps clarify it for me. There's a current
thread on the TP list about the context issue in general, and it
brought up _how_ we as translators could add to contextual
information for each other, as our part of this responsibility. (The
maintainer part being up to them, although we might be able to have
useful input.)
We really need a way for the comments we _can_ input to be picked up
when the main file is updated, and then passed out with all the
updated PO files. Could this be done by adapting any of the l10n
scripts currently in action?
For example, I finally work out what:
msgid "S"
means, and input my comment:
# This stands for Silly String, and appears in the Strange Menu
msgid "S"
msgstr "Chuỗi ngớ ngẩn"
and upload the file. Next time the original file is updated, a script
is run which collects all current comments from the PO files, then
makes sure each PO file has all the comments (a variant on
msgmerge?). One could imagine a large total of comments, but
certainly to start out with, it would provide the translator with
some information in the PO file, not having to hunt it up anywhere
else, and allow us to help each other out, not duplicate effort.
Is this at all doable?
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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