Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34972] Several issues regarding lokalization

[Byrial Jensen]

On 03-12-2011 19:02, address@hidden wrote:
> BTW, WinBoard did also not have a Danish translation yet. So if you have a
> taste for it now, there is no need to stop, as the winboard/language.txt
> template file of the source distro is still ready and waiting to be
> converted to a winboard/language/dansk.lng. ;-)
>
> Anyway, thanks for the good work and the feedback!
>
> H.G.

Well, if you are able to use or convert the po-file, you are welcome. If 
would be difficult for me to make a winboard file, as I don't use 
MSWindows, and thus cannot even test if I messed up the file by some 
accident.

And if I should make a translation for Winboard, I wouldn't even know 
what charset to use. UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 or some non-standard MS charset 
which I don't know?

I think a much more sound approach would be to also make Winboard use 
gettext. The po file format is much easier to work with for a translator 
as we can use special po file editor programs that make sure that only 
the translation and translation comments can edited, while the original 
text and the file structure cannot be accidentially damaged. These 
programs normally also have translation memory used to propose 
translations based on similar texts in the same or other po files, good 
search and replace functions etc.

- Byrial