Saaamba..Points to be discussed!!
by Eng. Maha Hulwa
1. The underscore used to underline the followed character, Where i should
put this character '_'?
2. What about the Slash..I find it in the translation itself not the
originial script.. Shall i remove it or does it mean anything..
3. Sometimes i don't know if this word is noun or verb; it could be
informative message or window label or action needed from the user..For
Example:
Create, modify, and delete samba shares = أنشء، عدّل، واحذف مُشاركات سامبا
Create, modify, and delete samba shares = إنشاء، تعديل، وحذف مُشاركات سامبا
not clear enough to me :)
Add a Samba share = أضف مُشاركة سامبا oR[ Samba أضف مشاركة جديدة تحت خادم ]
_Add Share = /_ملف/إ_ضافة مُشاركة [why the translation looks like that,
shall i change it to إضافة مشاركة]
No guest account = guest لا يوجد حساب لمستخدم [did not transilitate the word
guest]
Visible = مرىء [or مشاركة مرئية]
Visibility = رؤية [Not enough to say vision; مدى رؤية المشاركة yuk!! any
better suggestion]
O_nly allow access to specific users = اسمح بالوصول _فقط لمستخدمين محدّدين
or it better to change it to مسموح فقط للمستخدمين المحددين
18 years, 2 months
Do we have any Web Developers within?
by Sherif Abdelgawad
$SUBJECT
I have noticed that we have a lot of ppl here. Some of them shy to speak. A lot
with no experience with CVS and Linux at all. Yet, they would joined the
mailing list.
I was thinking for a way to get the shy people to participate in more effective
way without trying to educate them how to use CVS, and/or educate them how to
use Linux.
So here is what I am thinking about.
CVS Mirror to match what is on Red Hat translation servers. That will give us:
- Control over our members
- Update our Keys
- Better, and faster management
- Central update process
Now to my next idea as we gonna have our own CVS, and files available to us
on filesystem where the web interface has access to it.
I was wondering if we can develop something that parse all the CVS files, give
template form that allow ppl who has no experience to just fill in a form and
submit this translation.
The point here is:
- Need PHP to parse and format the forms
- PHP submit the changes to MySQL DB, waiting for Maintainer approval
- Maintainer check the translation and click approve, hence the updates
goes to the PO files on the file system, and trigger a CVS sync to Red Hat
Server.
So the question is: Do we have any PHP/MySQL developer here who can try to
accomplish the above?
Thanks
Sherif
18 years, 7 months
.PO &.txt?.. what makes PO Very Special!!
by Eng. Maha Hulwa
Ok.. got another question.. what's the difference between .txt and .po ..
sure there is a difference.. but am thinking about how to deal parse and
rebuild PO file from java code.. we need to read po file each to update the
db..so we need to do some parsing work and understand how to read it..the
second time i need to deal with PO file when am populating the data backward
from the db into the files; modify the already existing file or create a new
one.. what if i did treat it as a text file that am looking for say "daemon"
take it with its translation, know if it's translation is fuzzy or not.. and
then populate the data into db table. vice verse.. i want to create or
modify PO file.. I'll be looking for a keywords and change the text or a
value of a header.. that's it!! i guess so :))
We have 3 significant data in PO file:
1- The original string and its translation; search on *msgid*&*msgstr*keywords
2- Knowing whether or not the string is fuzzy; by searching on this "*#,
fuzzy*" in the header of the current string am parsing on..
3- The file headers.. for example..at the top of samba file you will see
this section and it's existing in each po file:
# translation of system-config-samba.po to Arabic
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER.
*# Ossama M. Khayat <okhayat(a)yahoo.com>, 2004.*
*# Maha Helwa <mahahelwa(a)gmx.net>, 2004.*
*# Sherif Abdelgawad <sherif(a)redhat.com>, 2004.*
*# Munzir Taha <munzirtaha(a)newhorizons.com.sa>, 2004*.
#
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: system-config-samba\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2005-03-09 15:51+0100\n"
*"PO-Revision-Date: 2005-04-10 02:31-0800\n"*
*"Last-Translator: maha <mahahelwa(a)gmx.net>\n"*
"Language-Team: Arabic <fedora-trans-ar(a)redhat.com>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
Only 3 values that are changeable by the time of checkin any PO file:
> Add the name of the contributor at the end of contributors list and update
the value of "last translator" tag or whatever it's called ..
> Date of Revision.. i don't think every checkin.. when this value is
changed?
So i want to know why i should not treat any PO file just as a normal text
file? is it about the encoding? well am not sure but i guess it can be
handled from the java side!! decided to read/write any part of PO file with
certain encoding "utf-8"?
Yareet had yerod.. sherif..what do think?! shall i do it in this way?!
FYI.. i did not read the source of kbabel yet.. i get shocked when i tried
to look for a piece of code that reads the strings from PO file..which is
doing what?! i get lost and frustrated after this try.. i don't remember C..
what a shame!!
Maha.
18 years, 8 months
Ping
by Sherif Abdelgawad
Ping $ANYONE_ALIVE
Is there anyone still alive here ?
Maha are you OK or your Java coding 3amlet feky 7aga ?:)
Munzir .. knock knock !
Desoky .. still busy ?
Ghniem .. I know you are translating ;-)
Sherif
18 years, 8 months
Translation QA
by Sherif Abdelgawad
While checking the web CVS, I had a look at the anaconda file,
a quick notes for things I saw:
#: ../anaconda:159
msgid "Unable to set vnc password - using no password!"
msgstr "لم يمكن تحديد كلمة السّر - استخدام دون كلمة سرّ!"
It does not sound like proper translation. I think it should be:
غير قادر على تثبيت كلمة سر
VNC
#: ../anaconda:880
msgid ""
"No mouse was detected. A mouse is required for graphical installation. "
"Starting text mode."
msgstr "لم يعثر على ماوس. التثبيت الرّسوميّ يتطلّب وجود واحدة. بدء التثبيت
النّصّي."
We Should translate mouse ! So it should read: لم يعثر على فأره ..التثبيت
الرّسوميّ يتطلّب وجود فأرهThere are some other stuff I think it needs
seriousreview.Your thoughts?Sherif
18 years, 8 months
