Thomas Wouters wrote:

The other thing is that some messages need rewriting in the english in order for it to fit in Dutch; For instance,

msgid "Creating archive directory "

The extra space after the 'directory' suggests, to me, that Mailman will append the directory name. In Dutch, the best translation would be

msgstr "Maak archief directory %(directory)s aan."

Almost all translated messages are intented to be shown in web pages. Another amount of messages must be written verbatim, bacause they will be either to be shown in screen or to be sent by email to users. When I'm in doubt about how to write some messages, I give a glance to source code in order to see the destination of the intended message. In this particular case, msgid "Creating archive directory " is contained in Archiver/pipermail.py in a line with: self.message(_('Creating archive directory ') + self.basedir) This code must be rewritten to solve this particular problem as done with greetings page in 'listinfo.py', to somethig like: dir = self.basedir self.message(_('Creating archive directory %(dir)s')) so you can write: msgid "Creating archive directory %(dir)s" msgstr "Maak archief directory %(dir)s aan." Cheers -- ___ / F \ [[[]]]] ( O O ) #----------------0000--(_)--0000---------------# | Juan Carlos Rey Anaya (jcrey@uma.es) | | Servicio Central de informática | | Universidad de Málaga - España | #----------------------------------------------#

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"TW" == Thomas Wouters writes:

TW> Specifically, it took me a while to figure out how to TW> translate :) It would be helpful if there was a README file TW> in, say, messages/, explaining how to do it. I found helpful TW> notes in the archives of this list, though.

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"BAW" == Barry A Warsaw writes:

BAW> Excellent idea. I will try write something up tonight. D'oh! Shows you how tired I was. There's a README-I18N.en file in the top level directory (cvs) that should explain how to get started. I'm about to upload a "translation pack" to SF which will contain README-I18n.en, templates/en, messages/mailman.pot, and messages/*/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po. This should be easier for translators to use than grabbing them out of CVS. -Barry