Re: French translation

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Francois Suter wrote:
> A (renewed) effort has been launched by Guillaume Lelarge (with the
> help of Jerome Seyler and myself) to translate PostgreSQL to French.
>
> The goal is to translate the various applications, the manuals (doc and
> man pages), as well as the FAQs. Even if we are not starting completely
> from scratch, since some elements of previous versions had been
> translated (we are working on 7.4), this is still quite a challenge.

How are you planning to translate the SGML documentation? More to the
point, how do you plan to keep the translations up to date?

I ask because I want to organize people to translate the documentation
to spanish. There's already a translated version, but it's for 6.5
(eons old) and they have made little progress in the updating. What I
want to avoid is having to check by hand which pages change and where...
do you have some infrastructure for this?

I've read somewhere that the KDE project uses conversion tool from SGML
to PO, and translate using the PO tools (which can detect fuzzy strings,
already translated strings and such), but I haven't researched it.

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