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Re: a way to switch from SGML based to PO based translation?



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Kobayashi Noritada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> From: Jens Seidel
> Subject: Re: a way to switch from SGML based to PO based translation?
> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:01:43 +0200
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:53:42AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 11:47, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>>>> I have that for 1.155, how do I proceed?, just revert the english
>>>> version to 1.155 and try again to update-po?
>>> man po4a-gettextize
> 
> Yes.  You should use English 1.155 if your translation is against that
> revision.  Also, you should read a section named "HOWTO convert a
> pre-existing translation to po4a?" in the po4a(7)[1].
> 
> 
>> >From the Japanese CVS log of release-notes.ja.po:
>>
>> 1.1:
>> Generated release-notes.ja.po from release-notes.ja.sgml with following
>> command:
>> po4a-gettextize -v -f sgml -m ../en/release-notes.en.sgml \
>>   -l release-notes.ja.sgml -L euc-jp -p release-notes.ja.po.tmp \
>>   -o ignore-inclusion="dynamicdata shareddata" 2> /dev/null \
>>   && iconv -f EUC-JP -t UTF-8 release-notes.ja.po.tmp \
>>   | sed -e "s/euc-jp/utf-8/" | msgattrib --clear-fuzzy >
>> release-notes.ja.po
>>
>> 1.2: (optional)
>> Tweaked spaces by such as deleting superfluous spaces inserted by
>> po4a-gettextize into where newline marks originally were.  This change is
>> only for appearance, not for translations, by Noritada Kobayashi.
> 
> Thank you for citing my switch log, Jens. :-)
> 
> My procedure was:
> 
> (1) Tried po4a-gettextize until the conversion successed.  Please read
>     po4a-gettextize(1)[2] to know what the command line options above
>     mean, and po4a(7)[1] to know what to do.
> 
> (2) Corrected encoding.
> 
> (3) Checked roughly whether the conversion really have successed.
> 
> (3) Since all the translations were marked as fuzzy after the
>     conversion, defuzzified all the entries automatically.
> 
> (4) Checked more and tweaked whitespace.
> 
> (5) Enjoyed po4a life. :-)
> 
> [1] http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/en/man7/po4a.7.html
> [2] http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/en/man1/po4a-gettextize.1.html

Thanks all for the help. Maybe this should be added to the Readme?

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Regards,
EddyP
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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