From: | "Serguei A(dot) Mokhov" <mokhov(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca> |
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To: | Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL JDBC Folks <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Translation updates: errors_ru.properties |
Date: | 2004-10-07 21:57:27 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.58.0410071756030.26362@haida.cs.concordia.ca |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Kris Jurka wrote:
> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:37:01 -0500 (EST)
>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Serguei A. Mokhov wrote:
>
> > Peter E. and the pgAdmin team make it easier for translators by maintaing
> > the pages [1] and [2], with the new strings automatically merged in, to
> > ease up the job of translators who don't have necessarily the source tree
> > installed and possibly gettext or otherwise tools.
>
> Well these projects are a little different because they do use gettext
> which automatically produces the po files. We considered using gettext
> for the JDBC driver, but kind of stalled because we did not want to add
> any build dependencies. We could do this by checking the compiled files
> into cvs, but that isn't ideal either. I'd still like to move to gettext
> because I think the current system is error prone (and more work) for both
> developers and translators.
>
> > It'd be cool if the JDBC project had a similar page updated daily or some
> > such, because it's a bit more tedious with the .properties files to find
> > what's missing than with .po files.
>
> There are probably tools to compare properties files and merge them
> accordingly, but I'm not immediately aware of them. The problem is when
> the English message changes there is no way to notice and update the
> translated message.
Totally agree with you on all of the above.
> In the end I think the correct solution is to move to
> gettext.
When do you think that might happen?
> Kris Jurka
>
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