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OpenSolaris Software Translation
How can I take part in software translation community for OpenSolaris ?
Please read the general information on translation and submit the sun contributor agreement as given in the page for starting on translation.
Select your language group from the available language discussion groups you can subscribe with your email address or set up an RSS feed. Also take part in the discussions of this group. In case your language is not listed see instructions on creating a new languageFor ON/installer Translation
- Read about the info about joining an existing team and starting work. See info on starting a new language group if your language is not listed there.
- Find out about the repository structure of ON/Installer software messages to do the translation. Messages are stored under ON messages or install messages. Please use the below code to checkout the messages for ON/installer.
hg clone ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/nv-g11n/messages/ messages - Pl. look into the language team page to discuss with the leads on more information if you need any.
Translation For Gnome
- For Gnome, see the Gnome community page for translation Gnome Translation Project Page and proceed to help Gnome community. See the Sun Specific Gnome Translations page, on how to help with translations specific to Gnome in OpenSolaris.
How do I start software translation in a new language for OpenSolaris ?
Check out the existing language groups, if there is no team for your language and you would like to create a new group, proceed as follows:- create an account at opensolaris.org pages
- send an email introducing yourself to the group mailing list or the main community mailing list, i18n-discuss
- wait for approval of new language
- add your language to the table of localization teams
- start with software translation
How to avoid common mistakes during translations?
There are several types of resource files and each type follows specific format. When using CTI tool translation become much easier because the tool tries to decompose translatable content from formatting, however sometimes you can still see some 'strange' elements that have not be translated. The following is a list of common issues that sometimes appear during translation. Please note that those common mistakes slow down integration process, because before integration we have to fix those issues - and it takes time and effort.- HTML tags: HTML tags may appear not only at HTML source files, but also some other file types may contain such segments. Never translate the content of html tags: