[Fedora-trans-ar] Java application to help translation

[Maha Helwa]

HAA...lol oh my God.. fadahtena ya sherif.. i thought you will bring this on 
board when we have a prototype.. i should run ur code ghoniem right now and 
accelerate things from my side.. looool.. can't believe u do it now..lol

On 9/9/05, Sherif Abdelgawad <sabdelg at redhat.com> wrote: 
> 
> I thought of bringing this to a broader audience. I suggested to my team
> (Arabic translation team) while ago to have some sort of web interface to
> help non-technical ppl to contribute translation.
> 
> The idea was:
> 
> - Application that parse CVS po files
> - Store the strings, headers, and translation into DB
> - 3 interfaces:
> o Contributor - where an authenticated user can view untranslated and
> fuzzy strings
> and contribute translation from his browser.
> o Maintainer - Approve translation and merge new translation, QA, ..etc.
> o Admin - Populate DB with the PO files, generate PO files and
> check them
> back to CVS where it can be later sync'd to Fedora
> CVS.
> 
> Mohamed Ghoniem and Maha Helwa from the Arabic team volunteered to
> contribute
> a Java code. The work still going and we only got a parser for the PO 
> files
> but we
> wish to have full featured java application in the near future.
> 
> To check the current first initial code:
> 
> http://www.arabic-fedora.org/po2db.tar.gz
> 
> This code takes care of all PO components. It handles strings correctly
> in UTF-8 charset, it works fine with Arabic, and it should handle anyother
> charset and/or all languages supported by java.
> 
> We thought to bring this to a broader audience and other teams as we think
> this can be of a great help to all the translation effort. Also there 
> maybe
> other ideas that we can share.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Sherif
> 
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