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From: Adrian Maier <[email protected]>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL website translations
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:18:36 +0200
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Adrian Maier a écrit :
>  > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>  > <[email protected]> wrote:
>  >> [...]
>
> >>  Could work, but we still rely on the translator good will. No automatic
>  >>  process here. Or am I wrong ?
>  >
>  > Actually , there are two different purposes :
>  > 1)  detecting which translated pages went out-of-date
>  > 2)  providing some reliable tools that help the translators to easily spot
>  > the (English) modifications that they need to incorporate into their
>  > translated texts.
>
>  You can already do this with HTML comments on the translation. To use
>  custom SVN properties, all translators will need to have SVN write
>  access to pgweb, which can be a problem.

In this case the comments are preferable  since they can start being used
immediately after choosing a certain format .

>  If we agree on the HTML comments, we need to add the Revision tag on
>  each "template/en" file (see
>  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.props.special.keywords.html
>  for details). The PHP code will be able to compare the Revision tag
>  automatically added by SVN in the english file with the Revision comment
>  manually added by the translator on the translated file.
>
>  For example, we will have:
>
>  /* $Revision: 144 $ */
>
>  in the english file, and:
>
>  /* #Revision: 144 # */
>
>  in the translated one. I don't use dollar between "Revision: 144" in the
>  translated file so that SVN doesn't automatically replace the english
>  based revision with the new translated revision.

+1



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Adrian Maier

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