[Gretl-devel] Fwd: information for new translators

[Cristian Rigamonti]

I've been asked for information about translating gretl; maybe it's useful to
have some reference info in the list archives for future use, so I'm forwarding
my reply to the list.

(maybe we could even turn it into a brief explanation to be added to the "devel"
section of the website, so feel free to complete/correct the text)

Cri

----- Forwarded message from Cristian Rigamonti <cri at linux.it> -----

> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:33:10 +0100
> From: Cristian Rigamonti <cri at linux.it>
> To: Sergios Tsabolov <econlab at uom.gr>
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: About gretl]
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11)
> 
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:01:35PM +0200, Sergios Tsabolov wrote:
> > Hi , can you tell me what file I need to translate on gretl for linux!
> > thank you .
> > Sergios
> 
> Hi, gretl (as most Free Software projects) uses the GNU gettext library (a.k.a.
> the ".po files" system) for translating the program messages.  You can find
> information about gettext at
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext
> 
> The easiest way to start a translation is to get the relevant .pot file from the
> gretl page at the "GNU Translation Project" site
> 
>   http://translationproject.org/domain/gretl.html
> 
> and send the (even partially) translated el.po file to Allin Cottrell, who will
> incorporate it into the future versions of the program. Later, if you decide to
> maintain the greek translation on a regular basis, you can join the GNU
> Translation Project (an alternative option is to get access to the gretl CVS, as
> explained on the gretl home page on SourceForge).
> 
> For the moment, I suggest you to:
> 
> - get in touch with the Greek GNU translation team at
>   
>   http://translationproject.org/team/el.html
> 
>   who will be a useful guidance for general translation issues and the TP
>   functioning.
> 
> - subscribe to the gretl-users and gretl-devel mailing lists at 
> 
>   http://gretl.sourceforge.net/lists.html
> 
>   who will be useful for all gretl-related questions
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Cri
> 
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