Java application to help translation

[Manuel Eduardo Ospina Sarmiento]

Hi,
Thanks Sherif for bringing this project in.
Korean community members are also working on a similar project: 

* http://potron.sourceforge.net/
* http://codethread.net/potron/

It would be interesting to put all these initiatives together. 

I believe it would be also important to develop support for xliff as
this standard is getting stronger in the localization industry. 

Cheers,
Manuel 


El vie, 09-09-2005 a las 07:11 -0400, Sherif Abdelgawad escribió:
> 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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