On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Lorenzo Novaro <noval...@19.coop> wrote:
> In data martedì 30 aprile 2013 15:09:20, Marcos García ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > I do think Dolibarr really needs a new translation system. I think moving > > to the standard gettext will give benefits to the project, like allow > using > > UI to translate strings. > Working with .mo/.po files would be great, but it requires a revision of > all > php code, probably. As of now it is important to keep translations up to > date > and in the future they will be easily converted to other formats if the > opportunity arises. > An in-app UI for translations can be very useful for end users, but I think > that a centralized platform including a revision system is very important > to > ensure consistency and quality of translations. > > I have already asked once in the ML ago about that why not using gettext, there is a mail with the answers. In my opinion it would be also much easier, but would be a big effort to review all the code. > > I also think that the current system it is not intuitive enough to > > encourage people translate Dolibarr. There are also only a few programs > to > > translate in Dolibarr's ini-like format because of being (from my point > of > > view) non-standard. > Dolibarr's .lang files are really Mozilla Property Files which is not a > proper > standard, but is at least supported by transifex. > > The problem with current system is to know how to be up to date with the variables, as they are added only in english and french .lang files. It is difficult to track. But for the rest from my point of view it works. > > For the GUI, I do prefer launchpad than transifex because launchpad is > more > > "open", it is not commercial-oriented and has a big community around it > but > > I think this is a minor problem... > Yes, you are probably right, but I already use it so I thought to use it > for > this project as well. > > -- > Diciannove Soc. Coop. > Via Luccoli 14/8 > 16123 Genova > > _______________________________________________ > Dolibarr-dev mailing list > Dolibarr-dev@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dolibarr-dev >
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