[XESAM] Minutes of meeting 2007-05-23

[jamie]

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 23:34 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2007/5/24, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>:
>         Minutes of meeting, 2007-05-23
> 
> <SNIP> 
> 
> 
>         Joe would like to know how i18n works in Turtle.Evgeny has an
>         example here
>         http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-May/008252.html. He points out that the translation infrastructure (in Gnome) is already ready for .ini and xml files.
> 
> Ok, I've been asking around the Gnome camp how we could support i18n
> of Turtle files. As far as I can tell it is not gonna be trivial. We
> will have to add the support to intltool, which only supports a
> hardcoded set of file types... Given we write this patch we still need
> to convince the maintainers of intltool to put it in which might be
> hard to convince them about, but I don't know yet. 
>  
> 
>         The complexity of implementing a Turtle parser in C is
>         discussed. It seems unclear what the requirements for such a
>         parser would be in our case where we don't need full Turtle.
>         We haven't decided on a Turtle subset yet, so...
> 
> Ok, I've been familiarizing myself with Flex/Bison which is also used
> for the Raptor Turtle parser and I'm not too scared to write one now.
> I think the i18n might be the biggest issue for me now actually... 


we should have another meeting on tuesday to discuss where we go - talk
of using turtle format is a bit premature until the intltool maintainer
agrees to support it. (and even then getting someone with good perl
skills to implement support for it)

The replies from Gnome (1) suggest that its better to use an
intermediate format (xml or ini) for translations and then translate
into whatever ontology language thats needed. 

jamie.

(1)
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-May/msg00137.html