internationalization

[Warren Turkal]

Jeroen ten Berge wrote:

>> Second, a general question.  Projects like KDE, GNU and GNOME
>> each have
>> their own translation framework.  GStreamer has just recently been
>> i18n-ized using gettext, and now we want to start looking around for a
>> solution to actually get everything translated.
>> 
>> It would seem natural to me that freedesktop would have its own i18n
>> framework, but it doesn't seem like there is such a thing
>> yet.  Is this
>> part of freedesktop's focus, or is it the case (as some people tell me
>> on IRC) that freedesktop doesn't really need translations for the
>> project it hosts ?
> I think there's no better place to house the translationproject ! Current
> place for GNU translations is hard to find for starters, it would be nice
> if all efforts would go through one channel, then it would also be
> possible to use the existing data for cross-referencing which might easy
> translation a lot.

Kbabel just makes standard po files. It's not specific to KDE. You should
check it out.

wt
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Warren Turkal
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