[bt-devel] serious locale bug

Martin Gruner bt-devel@crosswire.org
Sat, 6 Oct 2001 17:51:03 +0200


Hi Fred,

> Apparently new software has been written that allows translation of
> handbooks using .po files.  I am trying to get a friend with a DSL
> connection to burn me a set of mandrake 8.1 discs which will have the
> code to create the .po file from the .en and .whatever_language files
> 
> Does anyone have any comments on this?  Should we try this path?

This sounds like a very good idea. It would make translating much easier 
because the text would be split in smaller chunks and they would only have to 
translate the portions that have been changed. Could you take a more in-depth 
look at this and inform us?

Martin