On Miércoles, 14 de Octubre de 2009 12:35:24 cociuba escribió: If you want to begin a new translation you should download the last version of the file gretl.pot in http://gretl.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gretl/gretl/po/ (be carefull to download THE LAST VERSION) In the web page above you can see the file already translated to German (de.po), Spanish (es.po), etc. When the gretl.pot file is translated to Romanian it has to be renamed to "ro.po" (ro is the code for Romanian). The gretl.pot file is a very simple text file. When you open it (or any other language xx.po file) with a text editor you will see a header and a sequence of tags "msgid", "msgstr". "msgid" contains the English sentence to translate and "msgstr" contains (between quotes) an empty space where you will write the sentence translated to Romanian. The lines starting with "#" should not be modified by the translator. It is very important that before beginning the translation you determine correctly the charset (for accents, etc) to use for your language. For most of the languages, the present recommendation is to use UTF-8. In theory you can edit the gretl.pot file with any text editor, but specially if your OS is Windows Vista or Windows XP you have to be carefull, because Windows normally doesn't use UTF-8. Although the .pot file is very easy to understand and easy to modify with any text editor, soon you will see that it is convenient to use some editor that has specific features for working with .po files. If you work in Linux, the best editors are Kbabel, Lokalize and Emacs, if you work in Windows you can use Poedit (http://www.poedit.net/ ). Once the gretl.pot file is completely translated, you should rename it to ro.po and send them to integrate with the rest of the program. We (the translators) normally do it making use of the cvs program. We have an account in sourceforge so that we can send directly our translations to the gretl cvs repository. I am sure that Allin will open soon an account for you, but I think probably it is the best that the first time you send the file to Allin Cottrell so that he can check all is ok. Please do not be frightened about the volume of the gretl.pot file. Currently it has more than 3000 sentences. As an approximation, when I translated to Spanish for the first time they were only 2100 and it took me two weeks of very hard job (but by other side the updates are normally not more than 20 sentences, so in ten minutes they are done). -- Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 www.et.bs.ehu.es