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how do I do offline translation

Asked by Shannon Fang

Dear Community,

I would like to do some translation for Ubuntu Edgy. I have some questions:

1) I sent a request to download a po file, but it is not received for a long time (several hours now). Is the file sent immediately (automatically) or is there a manual processing involved? Is there any alternatives to get the po file?

2) I plan to use the gtranslator program, is it ok? Also, after I translated or modified the po file, can I test it locally before submit to launchpad? If so, how do I do it (the testing)? Is there a HOWTO?

3) I found some string I need to translate, but I don't know which program it belongs to. How do I find out? For example, the top GNOME panel, which contains the “System" menu... which program contains the top menu bar?

Thank you!

Sincerely,
Shannon

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Best Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#1

1) We are currently having problems with PO export: I hope you have already got your PO file. If not, we expect it to be fixed tommorow, unless it's one of remaining problematic ones. To track status of the problems, you can watch https://launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/81278.

2) It's fine to use gtranslator, though many translators feel there are better tools around (KBabel is praised by many). Testing locally is a bit more tricky, and what you want to do is to generate a MO file using the template name of the file you downloaded (eg. if you downloaded "evolution-2.8" PO file for French language "fr.po", after completing translation, you'd generate a MO file using "sudo msgfmt -cv -o /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/evolution-2.8.mo fr.po", and then restarting evolution).
I don't know if there's a HOWTO, but you should probably look at HOWTOs provided by GNOME and KDE translation teams, or check with ubuntu-translators list.

3) That one specifically is inside "gnome-panel". Until we have a working search feature (watch bug 44), you may want to ask questions like this on ubuntu-translators list.

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Shannon Fang (xrfang) said : 		#2

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