Can someone point me to a "howto" or explaination on how are the files firstly generated?

I usually run everything in English here, but I was browsing the pt_BR.po, and it is looking a little worse than if the translations were done by an authomatic engine.

I'd guess no one at the connectiva team listed in the file is a GIMP user at all.

Regards,

JS ->

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 1:11 pm, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

David Neary writes:

Sure. README.i18n contains the basics of how to use gettext.

The inaccurate Rough Guide is like this... you copy an existing po template file to one named after your localisation, translate the messages (being careful to use UTF-8), add the po files to CVS, and when you have po files for each of the localised directories (the dirs starting with po), add the language to ALL_LINGUAS in Makefile.am

You missed an important point here: You should coordinate your translation effort with the GTP (GNOME Translation Project). Please do not start working on translations (new or existing ones) without getting in contact with the translation team for the particular language you are interested in.

Here goes what I got when writting the one in charge for pt_BR in the GTP pages:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at conectiva.com.br. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. --
:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22270 invoked by uid 0); 16 Sep 2003 16:30:10 -0000 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br (200.250.58.156) by burns.conectiva with SMTP; 16 Sep 2003 16:30:10 -0000 Received: by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) id 1C23747432; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:35:04 -0300 (BRT) Delivered-To: godoy@conectiva.com.br ----------------------------------------

Does GTP have a list or something? I think I have heard from this Godoy in a local free-software list, I will check.
Meanwhile I've written the guy listed in the GIMP pt_BR file - that mail did not seen to fail, and I will possibly get a reply.

Sven
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On Wednesday 17 September 2003 9:30 am, Daniel Egger wrote:

Re: [Gimp-developer] PO files
Date: Today 9:30:45 am
From: Daniel Egger
To: Sven Neumann
CC: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu

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Am Mit, 2003-09-17 um 13.29 schrieb Sven Neumann:

Is this the official new list for the GTP? If so README.i18n should be changed.

I might have missed something but what exactly do you think needs to be changed in README.i18n?

I read in the thread that the GTP contact address is dead, if this is the case and it was mentioned in the README we should have changed it. However the broken address seems to come from somewhere else so this is a non-issue for us.

yes, a non issue.
The dead address was the e-mail for the pt_BR coordinator's e-mail. I found his up to date e-mail in another free software related list (and warned him that the GTP page should be updated).

I am now in touch with the guys at the pt_BR gtp team, and I will be able to help there with the Gimp.

JS ->