Re: Translations (rewrite directory)

Le 30/04/2026 à 16:35, Rich Bowen a écrit :
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>> On Apr 30, 2026, at 10:18 AM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I have reviewd most of the spanish ones. Aside from a few minor style and subjective things (I am no professional translator),
>> or some small phrases in some places not translated such as "Available in 2.4.51 and later" in some cases, or perhaps some phrases where the
>> orther of the subject and verb does not follow typical spanish use, but still correct... Minor things aside, it passes as an
>> understable translation that expresses the idea behind the english version correctly.
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>> Perhaps this is definetly the way to go, focus on the english page and automatically translate to respective languages, and leaving
>> the human "power" to small corrections in the translation. As I understand it if there is an agent it can be told to adjust some things if we do not like
>> the result at least a 90% :)
> Yeah, that’s where I’m leaning, too, although we should make an intentional decision about what languages we want to maintain, based on what we believe the audiences to be. I’m inclined not to continue the .da for example, but having .pt-BR might be a great addition.

A few thought...


Nowadays, browser often have a translate functionality.
So do we even have to provide any AI generated translation?


Translation of the doc is, IMHO, painful because you have to go over and 
over the docs when some small changes are done and keeping things in 
line with the English version is really time consuming.

A long time ago, I gave a look at using Gettext and itstool.
We could generate pot files from the English xml and translate lang.po 
files, instead of manually managing all the translated xml files.

To me, the main advantages are related to the workflow allowed by Gettext.
   - Things can be translated one part at a time
   - Changes in the reference English doc can easily be spotted in the 
lang.po files.
   - itstool can be instructed for things not to translate and xml 
elements can be nested or left inline in order to ease translation

I can share my tentative rules.its file if you want to give it a try.

CJ


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