[Koha-translate] Re: [Koha-devel] Multilingual Support in The User interfase

[Paul POULAIN]

lars at rovaniemelainen.com wrote:

>Paul,
>
>My consortia of libraries has assigned me the task of making a translation in
>Swedish.  If there is documentation about how to do a translation, then please
>point out the link.  
>
>Because of the low traffic on koha-translate and the discussions here, I presume
>now that the koha-translate list is now depreciated and that discussions of
>translation are to be discussed from now on in koha-devel instead.
>  
>
In fact, it's still here & needs some rebirth. There are specific 
translation tools in Koha, so the koha-translate ML should be used.

>In the mean time, I have found the three files "intranet.fr", "opac-css.fr", and
>"opac.fr" in the directory koha/misc/translator and created corresponding ones
>for Swedish : "intranet.sv", "opac-css.sv", and "opac.sv" with the second column
>of text being in Swedish.  
>Is that the recommended method?
>  
>
No.
In fact, there is a highly better tool than the one I did for french 2.0 
: it's tmpl_process3.pl
This tool works like the tmpl_process.pl tool that was used for french.
But it generates .po file.
A .po file is standard in the free software world. So you can use 
various tools to do your translation stuff : kbabel is the most known.

For 2.2 release, we will drop the tmpl_process.pl script (already done) 
and use the tmpl_process3 script.
and i've installed kartouche, a nice software, on a web interface, that 
all french can use to do translation. 60% of the OPAC is done & 10% of 
the intranet.

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)