Localisation

LOCALISATION (L10N) A piece of cake that is not only a piece of cake. DrRider

LOCALISATION WHAT IS IT?

WHAT IS IT? TRANSLATION

LOCALISATION WHY? ● Open Source Project – Contribution from people around the world – Distributed to people around the world – Not all people can use English well – Give them more accessibility to softwares and technology

Examples ● GNOME ● KDE ● Many Open Source Projects

LOCALISATION WHAT? ● APPLICATIONS – User Interface – Error Messages – Info Messages ● DOCUMENTATION – Manuals – Help Documents

LOCALISATION HOW? ● Translate messages, documents, etc ● Contribute to upstream ● Roles of Contributors – As translators – As Coordinator

LOCALISATION HOW? ● Translator – preferred characteristics – Have a good command in both languages – Familiar with the program that is being translated – Familiar with computer jargons – Have a good skill in writing

LOCALISATION HOW? ● Coordinator – preferred characteristics – Translator's features – High responsibility – Can coordinate between translators as well as people from upstream – Good communication skills

LOCALISATION HOW? ● Coordinators – GNOME Project ● Theppitak Karoonboonyanan ● http://thep.blogspot.com ● http://linux.thai.net – KDE Project ● Sahachart Anukulkitch ● drrider[at]gmail.com

LOCALISATION ● Why is it not a piece of cake? – Numerous string entries – A huge number of packages – Low number of translators – Need some specific knowledges in order to effectively translate programs – Need higherthanaverage communication skills, especially in writing, to make the translated strings understandable. – etc....

LOCALISATION HOWTO ● Choose a program that you would like to translate ● Tell your coordinator ● Download the message's template (*.pot file) ● Translate... and save as *.po file ● When finish, send the file to coordinator ● Coordinator will check translation and if things go well, the file will be uploaded to upstream

LOCALISATION HOWTO ● Tools – SVN/CVS (http://subversion.tigris.org/) ● A version control software, used to download template files ● For coordinator, this program will also be used to upload files to repository – KBabel (http://kbabel.kde.org/) ● A tool that is used to edit and manage gettext PO files

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LOCALISATION RESOURCES ● Theppitak's Blog http://thep.blogspot.com ● Glossary for OSS http://www.opentle.org/ossglossary/index.php ● ศัพท์บัญญัตราชบัณฑิตยสถาน ิ http://rirs3.royin.go.th/coinages/webcoinage.php ● Thai GNOME Translation Team http://gnome th.sourceforge.net/

LOCALISATION RESOURCES ● KDE Thai Team http://l10n.kde.org/teaminfos.php?teamcode=th

LOCALISATION – FAQ

Localisation

by DrRider on Jan 26, 2008

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