Re: OpenOffice.org translation

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Yaum al-Jumma 28 Jumaada al-Awal 1425 07:00 pm, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > I meant to say that because the script can't make the distinction, it
> > shouldn't be run on the files from the beginning.
>
> It should be easy to simply copy the msgid's content into msgstr (via a
> plethora of means including Kbabel) and I can add this option to the
> script for it not to touch any pre-existing msgstr contents if that
> is deemed worth-while.

I think there is a BIG misunderstanding. I thought you wrote a script to 
remove any msgstr where is msgid=msgstr. Now, you are proposing to not touch 
pre-existing msgstr. Why is the script then needed?!!

> > I will see now if there is a tool to work with  it and report back
> > what I am going to do.

This is what I call arabeyes damn(?) لعنة عربايز;)
I found gsitranslator. It needs java, swt and maybe eclipse. I waited till I 
am on work to download an rpm from my club commercial packages for java. The 
links to rpms for java didn't work. I surfed to Sun's site to download Java 
and compile it from source but found it not working these days. I searched my 
local drive to an old java rpm. I found one and after some playing with 
configuration files and CLASSPATH, I couldn't solve the Exception in thread 
"main" java.lang... and the story continue... Because of time constrains I 
left this track.

Again into sgi -> po method. after a discussion on irc with Pavel Janik the 
l10n co-lead, he mentioned that msgfmt will not work and we do not need it at 
all. I discussed with him the possiblitly of working with original old .po 
and he mentioned it's ok and we would do the merge lator and that no strings 
are removed between 1.1.x releases and hence our work won't be lost. I will 
continue working with the .po files for now.

He also mentioned that the deadline to update GSI files in CVS for 1.1.3 is 
July, 28th. If any one wants to help to meet the deadline it would be nice.

> I'm not sure what truly is the issue, but I can't see why it would be
> this big of a deal to where the entire files have to be regenerated.
> As you (and others) though see fit.

I was about to work with the original format not to convert it to .po and then 
work on them. Now, that proves problematic with this java stuff I would 
return back to the .po and pray to God that anmar was wrong regarding his 
warning not to work with the .po files ;)

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