[sword-devel] locales - new strings for translation

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Dear Zdenko,

Yes, locales can now begin to include translations and abbreviation for 
these additional books.  I have done 2 things to ease this process:

1) we now automatically add all builtin abbreviations to each locale. 
There used to be a requirement that these all had to be present in each 
locale so English abbrevs would continue to coexist with localized 
abbrevs.  Now the English abbrevs are automatically added.

2) removed all the english abbrevs for all locales.  This was a silly 
requirement that each locale duplicate all the english abbreviations. 
We've talked for a long time about removing them, and now that they are 
automatically added via the #1 above, they will all be consistent, and 
will be updated when we add new books, and they are no longer required 
to be duplicated in each locale.

This will make all locales 'work' programatically with the new books.
But, for the locales to be complete, they need to provide translations 
of the new books in their language, or the expense they will incur will 
be showing their user English.

Thanks for the important reminder.

	-Troy.



Zdenko Podobný wrote:
> Hello Troy,
> 
> I have a look at canon_abbrevs.h and there are listed also apocrypha 
> books (e.g. Baruch, Enoch, Maccabees, Wisdom etc.)  This books are not 
> in locales.d/*.conf (in mt-utf8.conf they are commented).
> 
> Should be these book translated in locales.d/*.conf? If yes than all 
> locales files should be updated...
> 
> Zd.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org 
> <mailto:scribe at crosswire.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Speaking of bundled systems in my last email about v11n reminded me
>     that we have some outstanding issues with a few of the locales we
>     bundle. There are a few which still use the old numeric syntax for
>     designing with which book an abbreviation is associated. e.g.,
> 
>     GE=1
> 
>     instead of
> 
>     GE=Gen
> 
>     The new syntax uses osis book ids.
> 
>     Any takers on updating?  The locales I see problems with in here:
> 
>     http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/locales.d/
> 
>     are:
> 
>     af.conf
>     mt-utf8.conf
>     zh_english-utf8.conf
>     zh_TW-utf8.conf
> 
>     Thanks for any help.
> 
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