PO Translations chapter added to the FDP Primer
Lukas Splavec
splavecl at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 21:19:32 UTC 2015
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Hoyoung Kim wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> The PO Translations chapter has been added to the FreeBSD
>> Documentation Project Primer:
>>
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/po-translations.html
>>
>> Please provide feedback. Can the examples be improved? Are there
>> sections that are not clear?
>>
>> At present, there is no example of the steps to add a new language
>> directory. It might also benefit from a more detailed example of modifying
>> a book Makefile for the
>> translated version.
>>
>> Comments are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> I'm interested in adding a new language directory.
>>
>
> What, another one? :)
>
> It would be nice to have detailed instruction, especially about creating
>> language-specific `share' directory (It was the most difficult part for
>> me). I recently started Korean translation and want to share my experience
>> to make things better. Advices will be appreciated :)
>>
>
> The process should be documented in any case. Fortunately, we have the
> recent example of the Korean language addition to follow. Thank you for
> your work on that.
>
> There has also been recent interest in Czech, which would be a reasonable
> example of adding a non-CJK language. I'm not sure how the character set
> is decided, whether anything new will be UTF-8, or if there are national or
> regional defaults.
>
> Thanks!
>From what I know czech in UNIX-like uses ISO 8859-2.
I have followed Kim's sugestion and copied the share directory from the
english original and it made "make po" to work. Need to go through the
settings and check what needs to be customed.
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