[sldev] Translations

[Nicholaz Beresford]

Daniel Nylander wrote:
> Yes, I submitted that bugreport. Since I don't know if I have done
> everything correct, I'm not sure how to proceed.

Oh dang, didn't notice the name.  That must have been a lot of
work man ... kudos for that!

In everty time I'm seeing your submission in that list, it makes
me want to grab a Linden by the shoulders and shake them.  It
really infuriates me to see good work (and I assume it is good,
although I don't know a single word of Swedish) lie there and
get stale.  (although a few days ago Torley said on the JIRA
in a comment there, that their internationalizon team is looking
at it).

In fact if my brain had worked properly, I would have nominated
you for the Open Source award for "best contribution" because
yours is easiest of one of those with the most time and efforts
spent.

(Pinging Lindens ... is there any chance of bending the rules
and accepting a late nomination?)


> I noticed that the XML structure has slightly changed between versions
> and the static translation must be updated accordingly. Is there any
> tools for this or do I just have to spend hours to find the changed
> strings? It would be great if someone could create a wiki page or
> similar describing the work flow for translators. Localization is important.

If you want to bring it up to date, I can give you a basic rundown on
the diff tool and you could create that page if you want.  With that
it'll be easy to check for the XUI differences between two versions.

What you basically need to do is to download the Cygwin-tools
(http://www.cygwin.com/) and install them (best go to c:\cygwin).

Then you need copies of the two xui folders (oder version, newer
version) in a folder next to each other, e.g. c:\translate\xui_1_15
and c:\translate\xui_1_18).  Then you open a windows command prompt
(Dos window) and type:
c:
cd \translate
c:\cygwin\bin\diff -u --strip-trailing-cr xui_1_15 xui_1_18 >diff.txt

This will create a file named diff.txt which will show you all files
and locations and lines which have changed.

Let me know if you need more details about using this tool.

And maybe email Soft Linden (soft at lindenlabs.com) and ask he she
can find the current status of your submission.


Nick



Nick