Pootle

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OlpcProject.png Contact: AlfonsodgRafael Ortiz, Xavi

Here's a report of trying to document the ups & downs of installing Pootle.

Proving Grounds

We are currently testing ad-hoc trial (config)

Observations

  • Casual translators may only 'suggest' translation
  • You can download the PO, so there's no forcing of the on-line UI.
  • In the translation interface, fuzzy entries are grayed out and there's a gray vertical line separating the terms

To Do

Usage

  • Define goals
  • Explore the 'suggest' function & review process
  • File maintenance: rename, delete files? How is it done? (ie: uploaded a file with a name that has no POT should not be valid—but I've done it—so if it was a mistake, how do you undo it?)

Config

Glitches

  • Something related to encodings was wrong during the setup
    Alfonso commented several language specs that apparently were iso8859 instead of UTF ??
  • Haven't found the way to read / load the .POT files using git
  • User permits seem a bit awkward (per user, no groups except for 'nobody' & 'default')
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