Mailman 3 May 2002 - Mailman-i18n

translation checker
by Simone Piunno June 30, 2002

June 30, 2002

Hi everyone, During the italian translation of Mailman I've done many typo errors which, in the worst case, caused Mailman misbehaving. I think the real problem is that I couldn't find any editor or tool which does the following checks: - when translating a text template, if a given %s or %(var)s is in the original file it probably should appear the same number of times in the translated text. - in the translated text you shouldn't have a %(var)s if that %(var)s wasn't in the original text. - when translating an html template, the same concept should apply for <MM-*> tags. - when translating the .po file, the same concept should apply for each msgid/msgstr pair. So, to easy the process, I've written a small script to check my translation whenever I do some update. This script has been generalized and now you can use it for your language too. Just for an overview of how much the tool can be effective, this simple bash script: ----------------------------------------------- for i in big5 cs de es fi fr hu it ja ko no ru; do echo -ne "$i:\t"; transcheck -q $i; done ----------------------------------------------- applied to the last Mailman-CVS has reported: big5: 33 warnings in 9 files cs: 192 warnings in 3 files de: 136 warnings in 6 files es: 115 warnings in 12 files fi: 312 warnings in 6 files fr: 58 warnings in 4 files hu: 105 warnings in 6 files it: 1 warnings in 1 files ja: 182 warnings in 3 files ko: 231 warnings in 8 files no: 30 warnings in 3 files ru: 341 warnings in 13 files Before using my script, the italian translation counted about 70 warnings. The one still counted actually is not an error: a %(var)s appears two times in the original english text but in italian we have intentionally only one. Using the script without the -q switch, you can see a detailed report. The script isn't perferct and can be improved in many ways: - better regexp to search for Python %(var)s - better .po parser - better exception handling for strange situation - generalizations to use it in other python projects but it's already good (at least for italian). Feel free to use it and to report any feedback. Cheers, Simone -- Simone Piunno, FerraraLUG - http://members.ferrara.linux.it/pioppo

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i18n
by Andy Knuts June 28, 2002

June 28, 2002

Hello I'm currently looking for the dutch translation pack for Mailman, as stated onthe website: The site administrator can install new language packs as donated by volunteer translators. If you'd like to volunteer to help with translations, or would like todownload language packs for installation at your site, please contact the mailman-i18n(a)python.org mailing list. So i would like to request the dutch language pack Thanks; Akke

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Spanish modules
by Diego Femeni＠s June 28, 2002

June 28, 2002

Could you send me the Spanish translation modules?. I must have Mailman 2.1 to use the language modules?. Thanks in advance, Diego Femenias

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Where can i get the pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese) Lang. Package ?
by Tiago Alves Macambira June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

where can i donwload the pt_BR language pack for mailman?! TIA Tiago Macambira

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Re: [Mailman-i18n] translation checker
by Simone Piunno May 26, 2002

May 26, 2002

Dan Ohnesorg wrote: > > cs: 192 warnings in 3 files > > I am also this one. I have looked at it and that are mostly untraslated > strings. The script should probably not report error, when msgstr is empty. Thanks Dan for this suggestion! You can get the new version here: http://cvs.ferrara.linux.it/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mailman-it/transcheck Cheers Simone -- Simone Piunno, FerraraLUG - http://members.ferrara.linux.it/pioppo

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Portuguese version
by Rodrigo Brasil do Couto May 13, 2002

May 13, 2002

Hi, I would like to download de portugueses translation pack? Where this pack is? Thanks ______________________________________________________________________ Rodrigo Brasil do Couto Fundação Getulio Vargas E-mail: rbrasil(a)fgv.br DITI - Divisão de Tecnologia da Informação Tel.: (0xx21) 2559-6035 Setor de Suporte de Redes Fax: (0xx21) 2559-6009

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Mailman - Estonian translation
by Anti Veeranna May 6, 2002

May 6, 2002

Hello If now one else has volunteered to take that job before, I would like to work on the Estonian translation/language pack for Mailman. A little background information about me: I have previous experience in localizing gettext based applications. I'm part of KDE's Estonian language team, where the localization of programs the kdegames module is my responsibility. I have also worked on unofficial translation of Majordomo[1] and a number of other smaller programs. Currently I am also administrator for 2 small Mailman installations, which run 30 and 10 lists respectively. Based on that, I believe that I have the necessary knowledge and skill for this job. I have a pretty clear picture of what is involved and I'm all set up for it; all I need is an OK from you. [1] unofficial, because it didn't have any support for gettext or similar internalization libraries and therefore translating it ment changing the code directly. -- Anti Veeranna duke(a)linux.ee

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Subject lines in Archives
by Gary Wang May 4, 2002

May 4, 2002

hiya. I've got Mailman 2.1.b1 installed, and I was wondering about international (specifically Japanese) characters in the subject line. When recieving via e-mail (and viewing with a capable e-mail client), the subject line, text, etc are all displayed correctly. As a test, I put a few kanji in the title and message body, and hopped over to the archives. The kanji/japanese in the body showed up just fine, but the subject line became this: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCRnxLXDhsISkbKEI=?= Is this a known bug/work in progress, or is there something I can change to fix it? thanks, gary gary c wang ICQ: 4343405

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