Re: webmin translations status

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 23:34, Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin wrote:
> Em Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:12:11PM +0200, Martin Mewes escreveu:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin <cavassin-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Em Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:48:00PM +0000, Jamie Cameron escreveu:
> > > > However, perhaps some simple programs could be written to convert
> > > > between Webmin's format and the .po file format? That would allow other
> > > > translation programs to be used..
> > >
> > > Exactaly. We already have that scripts (and skolelinux have as well). So
> > > we'll continue using them, mainly for pt_BR and fr translations.
> > >
> > > The main question is if we should add these PO files in the webmin
> > > translation project itself.
> > 
> > Well I think that including more files to the webmin repository would be 
> > useless. The main goal must be that updated translations to webmin must be 
> > in $format to be easily included for Jamie.
> > 
> > As long as Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin does not directly support po-files I 
> > could think of something that $official_po_repo is converting the 
> > lang-files once a time and send them to Jamie in the format he needs?
> 
> I was not clear enough. I meant to make the PO files available 
> for translators in webmin web site. An i18n coordinator will have to 
> convert them back to be included for Jamie.
> 
> So the translator will have both options: to use PO files or to stay
> with old way. IMHO, PO format will help to attract more translators,
> since many projects use it. 

I could certainly add links to those files from the Webmin site.
However, I would strongly recommend using only Webmin's native language
file format wherever possible, as you are likely to get out of sync when
converting to and from the .po format ..

 - Jamie