[Freedombox-discuss] Translations of Plinth (Was: Wiki content proposals)

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
>> Regarding Plinth, translation has started on Github
>> https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth/tree/bcb26cc52c9048501e3cfa1098de98df4a4b75af/locale
>
> Very good that it is using PO files.

Btw, I had a closer look (and started on an nb translation), and noticed
two typos (missing quotes) in the fr file.  I've commited a fix, but you
should check if I got it right.

But most translation files are empty at the moment:

% for f in locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/django.po ; do printf "%s " $f; msgfmt --output=/dev/null --statistics $f; done
locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po 0 translated messages, 240 untranslated messages.
locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/django.po 0 translated messages, 240 untranslated messages.
locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/django.po 240 translated messages.
locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/django.po 0 translated messages, 240 untranslated messages.
locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/django.po 28 translated messages, 212 untranslated messages.
locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/django.po 0 translated messages, 240 untranslated messages.
%

What is the logic beind the current language selections?  Do we have
volunteer translators for the listed languages?

Btw, why is the file structure locale/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/django.po?  A
more common structure is to use locale/<lang>.po or similar (I've seen
po/ as the directory too), and this make it easier to loop over all the
translation files, as the language code is included in the file name.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen