Re: <i18n dev> Newbie questions

[Jakob Wisor]

"Jiri Vanek"<jvanek at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Currently there is no Polish developer active, so your file will be probably
>>> not-checked :)
> 
> I forgot Adam do speak a bit of Polish!

And there is probably Miachal Gorny who did the Netscape plug-in integration ;)

>>> I would like to help you with any problems you may encounter - both by
>>> developer point of view and from guy who provided CZ translation.

Hey thanks, that is kind of you. I sure need any help I might get.

Regarding the translation; Did you follow any policy or guide while translating to cz? I was not sure how close to stay to the en original. I tried to stay as close as possible rather then doing a more semanticly oriented translation. What is the preferred policy on that?

>>> Thank you guys. I would be really glad to help you, but unfortunately there
>>> is a problem while cloning the repository on Windows systems since they do
>>> not support case-sensitive file systems by default.
>> 
>> tests/reproducers/simple/CountingApplet1/resources/ParallelAppletsTest_1_x_
>> 2e.html
>> tests/reproducers/simple/CountingApplet1/resources/ParallelAppletsTest_1_x_
>> 2E.html
>> 
>> are causing an abort. Please resolve this issue.
> 
> I see:((  It will not be solved as fast as one want.

Well, as long as it stays on the agenda that should be fine. I will try to contact the person that has created the test or has touched it lately, so as to perhaps speed up the process a bit.

> I have looked into the Mercurial configuration and manual, but there is no
> option to rename conflicting file names. The operation is simply aborted. But,
> there is an option that emits a warning when commiting file names that may
> cause problems on different operating systems. Might be a hint for the future.
> ;)
>> I would rather not download a tgz or tbz since I still will not be able to
>> submit a patch.
> 
> Actually you can live with tarball pretty fine as patch is not needed. Or even
> without icedtea-web sources/compilation completely - the only necessary output
> of yours is the Messages_pl_PL.properties file.

Yes, I know, a working local repository would still make life easier. I have downloaded the original Messages.properties and made translations for all officially German speaking localities de_AT, de_BE, de_CH, de_DE, de_LI, and de_LU first. I am going to take on pl_PL next.


>> Btw, I do not run a Linux machine, not even as a VM and I do not have the
>> time to set one up. And as far as I understand icedtea-web is not available
>> for Windows, so some of you guys is going to have to test those new localized
>> property files.
> 
> Icedtea-web itself should be compilable on windows, however I'm afraid no one
> ever tried :( And I'm pretty sure there will be some complications.
> 
> So yes, testing (Also crating of automated tests) will be necessary and
> probably I will do it.

I might take a look into this matter after I am done with translations. But before that, I have to figure out how to upload files for review. Wish me luck! ;)

Jacob