[sword-devel] Finnish translation is ready

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> Eeli,
> 	Thank you so much for putting in the time to get BibleCS running under
> wine (I'm quite surprised it works!).

Well, it crashes quite often, runs very slow and some things don't work
at all, but I got my work done.

>  I would suggest including
> translation strings in your fi.conf file for the static strings and I'll

I did just that for the short strings. I guess that fi.conf is a good
start to other translators now, except that the strings are not in any
particular order. Non-translatable strings are at the end and there is
a general comment for them. Maybe you can use it also to find those
strings in the source code.

About the long strings: I wonder if it would be possible to have a
.conf file also for the default language. In the source code there could
be only a string which works as a marker or name for the real string,
which is in the .conf file. Like this:

help_for_some_situation_string = _tr("help_for_some_situation");

And in .conf:

[Text]
help_for_some_situation=This is the long help text for some situation. \
 It's not in the source code at all so it can be updated without \
 recompiling.

But then if translation fails for some other language the string should
be still tranlated to the default language, the original string cannot
be used.

  Yours,
	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)