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

[Maha Helwa]

Thank you Sherif to bring this on board ..

 On 9/9/05, Maha Helwa <ms.helwa at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> 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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> 
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