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[rodin.s]

I have made Russian translation for Pmusic-2.4.4.

I also was experimenting with gettext and poedit. Locale file consists of 353 lines so it's easier to use poedit to handle it. Normal locale file is created with script gettext_script.
Some instructions how to use it are in the script:

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Sergey
I have updated the main post/pet.

I wonder if you could tell me....
What is so great about gettext? I have never used it....
I have just put all this NLS on hold until things get settled in Puppy. Now when Barry has started the work on NLS, all I see is many different standards. I hoped that Puppy should use one (or a few) to standardize the handling of language files.

From the view-point of a translater, do you find the zigbert-way hard to manage? I clearly see that I have missed the placement of the local files. I will probably move them, now when Puppy seems to be using /usr/share/locale/xx/

I simply want to learn more about the pro and cons for the different ways of doing things.


Thank you
Sigmund

[rodin.s]

In my opinion gettext is easy to use with scripts and internationalization could be made faster. It is a great tool for my work on Russian l10n of Puppy. Poedit has features of spell-checking and translation memory. It also works good when old script is updated. Old translation is not lost but updated automatically and new untranslated lines appear at the top of the list.
In case of Pmusic I have two files: new English file and old Russian one and then I have to compare them using information about changes made. And these changes are in different parts of the file. It takes time to find them all. These files are usually opened in different tabs of geany and I have to switch between the tabs.
Gettext is a little bit slower but it's a price I'm ready to pay for comfort. I had 2100 lines in my puppy.pot file and I could manage them with poedit but I think it would be hard to do zigbert-way.

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rodin.s
Thank you for the explanation.


Sigmund

[rodin.s]

I have made Russian translation for Pmusic-2.5.3.

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Russian updated

[rodin.s]

I have made Russian translation for version 2.6.3. As I understand now it should be in /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES. There are also two LOC2913 which is confusing.
I was also experimenting with my gettext translation method and I have made some scripts to make it easier.
Directory pmusic_translate in archive has two scripts: gettext_file and create_translation.sh. To use it you should open urxvt in this dir and run with your name as argument for translator credit:

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Russian updated
Link to gettext tools is added to main post


Thank you
Sigmund

[esmourguit]

Bonjour à toutes et tous,

Here is the french file for Pmusic 3.05.

Cordialement

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esmourguit
ahem, pMusic 3 does not anymore support the old NLS model.....

The 3 branch uses gettext for language support. I see that the old locales file is included in the pet. I kept it for transition, but now that period should be over. I will remove it.


Sigmund

[rodin.s]

I have made Russian translation for pMusic-3.0.6.

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Russian added

This is the first translation ready for pMusic 3
Thank you, Sergey


Sigmund

[charlie6]

Hi Sigmund,
Bonjour Jean-Jacques,

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French is gettexted and uploaded

[rodin.s]

I have updated Russian translation. It's for pMusic-3.2.3.