Re: [Gretl-users] questions about translation details
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Ok, I have just done my first cvs commit (de.po) to see whether
from that minute on gretl will stop working ;-)
Looks good so far!
1) actually unrelated to translation: could it be that some menu
shortcuts are doubly defined in English gretl? Like "user's guide"
and "check for updates" both receiving the u-shortcut in the help
window. (I presume lower or uppercase is irrelevant, right?)
Quite possible. I'll try checking that.
2) Speaking about menu shortcuts, what letter to choose for menu
shortcuts in the translations? Is there a rule, or am I free to
choose whatever I like?
If there's a rule, I'm not aware of it -- other than, try to choose
the most standard option (used in most other software), if there is
any standard option for the menu item in question.
3) Is it really necessary to "translate" menu separators
appearing
as strings? Or could they even be marked as not requiring
translation in the sources?
Yes, that seems stupid. I'll see if I can fix it.
4) To test out the effect of the changes without building myself,
are the changes automatically included in the windows snapshot
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe? At what
interval is the snapshot brought up to date?
Yes, .po changes automatically go into the snapshot. As for the
timing of updates, this is somewhat irregular. Basically it's
matter of: Is there something new that is worthwhile, or a
significant bugfix? (If yes, then make a snapshot.) Is there
something experimental going on in CVS which is liable to produce a
broken binary? (If yes, then don't make a snapshot.)
Right now there is experimental stuff going on (we're adding the
facility to define and manipulate matrices), but I don't think any
existing functionality is broken so I'll make a new Windows
snapshot tomorrow, Jan 11.
5) In the de.po file it says something about project id gretl
1.3.0.1, which sounds outdated. Something I can/should change?
Yes, I believe you're free to change that identifier to "1.5.0".
Thanks for your work on this!
Allin Cottrell