[doc] Fwd: Help us translate GoldenDict 1.5 to your language

[Usama Akkad <uahello at gmail dot com>]

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From: Julian Depetris Chauvin <jdepetris at gmail dot com>
Date: 2013/8/25
Subject: Help us translate GoldenDict 1.5 to your language
To: uahello at gmail dot com

Hello,

Hope this email finds you well. My name is Chulai and I'm one of the
GoldenDict developers. I contact you because you've contributed in the
past to the program with your Arabic translation.

Well, the good news is that after around 3 years of hard work from all
the GoldenDict community we are finally releasing version 1.5. We want
to ask your once again for your help. Of course you don't have any
obligation whatsoever. We just think it would be beneficial for the
project and users to have the program fully translated to your
language.

You can find the translation file in its current state here:
https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/raw/1.5-dev/locale/ar_SA.ts

You can do the translation with Qt Linguist. To download a copy go
here: http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Qt+Linguist+Download?content=89360

I suppose you have used this program before to do the translation but,
in any case, you can find a comprehensive manual at
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/linguist-translators.html

To "release" your *.ts file go to File -> Release menu from within the
Linguist program; it will create the appropriate *.qm file which you
could copy to GoldenDict's locale directory and test it.

To get the latest GoldenDict version to test your translation, unpack
the archive GoldenDict-1.5.0-RC-124-gb050b74 at
http://goldendict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2091&start=180#p10535
on top of the latest Early Access Build GoldenDict
1.5.0-RC-98-g46bbe67 at
https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/wiki/Early-Access-Builds-for-Windows

When you finish the translation you can either post the updated *.ts
file to the forum or do a pull request as explained in the following
forum topic: http://goldendict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2063#p8821

If you need any help with the procedure to get the translation done
please let me know. You can also ask for help in the forum.

Kind Regards,
Chulai