[native-lang] Reducing translation load (was Re: [native-lang] Change in Lead)

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 12:09 +0200, Andre Schnabel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Von: Mike  Dupont <[email protected]>
> > An: [email protected]
> 
> > 
> > Also, I would like to say that it has been very hard to find
> > translator for ooo, because it is so huge. I would like to suggest
> > that we merge strings with abiword that has been translated already
> > into albanian. 
> 
> Well - if you can ask all the translators of AbiWord to sign the SCA
> (if policy did not change, then it is still required for OOo localization).

I'm afraid you will also sadly find that the overlap will yield at best
about 15-20% 100% translated.  You would still want to review those.

A better approach, which we at Translate.org.za have done in the past is
to build a debug build using podebug.  This marks all the strings and
you can then work out which components are needed for translating Write
and focus on those.  I haven't done this in a while so I'm not 100% sure
that those files are, but it is relatively easy to do.

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