[jsword-devel] Vietnamese translation

[Familie von Kaehne]

> . Maybe I will try to bring in a native speaker to help me edit the
> translation. Better to do it right the first time.

My personal experience was that is much easier to embarrass people into
helping me to correct a working but faulty translation then by showing
them what is needed to translate.
>
> It's good to know about the hyphen/space issues. The abbreviated book
> names have no hyphens, spaces, or non-ASCII characters.
>
> Daniel
>
> peter wrote:
>> Daniel,
>>
>> I did the Farsi translation and some part of the German stuff.
>>
>> The files you did are the most immediate ones. Once you have done them
>> the application will look the part - until you start using it.
>>
>> Essentially the important files are the property files, first
>> BibleDesktop, then jsword, then common-swing and then common - in
>> descending order.  The Msg files are of varying importance - some very,
>> some not at all. I think if you do every file I translated into Farsi
>> you should end up with a complete system.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> Daniel Owens wrote:
>>   
>>> I probably should have asked whether someone was already working on 
>>> this, but I have been translating the BibleDesktop user interface and 
>>> Bible book names into Vietnamese. I have the following files translated 
>>> into Vietnamese:
>>>
>>> AboutPane_vi.properties
>>> Desktop_vi.properties
>>> Msg_vi.properties
>>> ViewSourcePane_vi.properties
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> BibleNames_vi.properties
>>>
>>> Traditionally Bible names are translated with a hyphen. For example, 
>>> Exodus is translated Xuất Ê-díp-tô Ký. When I created the Ansi file this 
>>> is the Exodus entry, with the hyphenated version in the alternate name 
>>> slot, hyphens marked "\u002D":
>>>
>>> Exod.Full=Xu\u1EA5t \u00CAd\u00EDpt\u00F4 K\u00FD
>>> Exod.Short=Xu
>>> Exod.Alt=Xu\u1EA5t \u00CA\u002Dd\u00EDp\u002Dt\u00F4 K\u00FD
>>>
>>> I don't have access to upload to SVN, and I wasn't sure I had all the 
>>> necessary files. Can someone let me know where to go from here or if I 
>>> am lacking anything?
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
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