Hello Jakub, On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 02:13:24AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Helge Kreutzmann <deb...@helgefjell.de>, 2013-05-31, 17:56: > > Please add a framework for providing localized man pages, possibly using > > po4a or similar tools. > > I don't plan to add such a framework upstream, at least for the time being. > Of course, the Debian maintainer is free to implement it on his own if he > wishes so. :)
Is this still the case (see also below)? I could help you implementing po4a in your build system, if you want. (I'm Debian maintainer for manpages-l10n nowadays). > > However, po4a currently does not support your native format (i.e. > > reStructuredText), so either you base the translation off the generated > > man page > > I played with po4a a bit, and I run into a few problems: > > 1) po4a doesn't support ".de1" requests, which is what rst2man uses: > http://bugs.debian.org/710678 > > 2) rst2man translates ' to \(aq, which is then left intact by po4a. I think > that would be nuisance to translators. I wanted to use --smart-quotes to > work around this problem, but that didn't work: > http://bugs.debian.org/712284 > > 3) po4a puts wrong timezone to POT-Creation-Date: > http://bugs.debian.org/710695 All of these are long resolved in po4a. > Fortunately 1) and 2) are easy to work around. With i18nspector 0.10 > (hopefully to be released over this weekend), it'll be possible convert the > manpage to a PO file using these options: > > po4a-gettextize -M UTF-8 -f man -o groff_code=verbatim -o > unknown_macros=untranslated > > The resulting file will contain quite a few messages that are not supposed > to be translated, like tag names. They can be easily filtered out by > msggrep: > > msggrep -v -X -E -e '^type: (SS|IP|TH)$' If this does not work reliable, man page translator are (and should be) aware of those strings. Actually, for me as a translator this also gives me context. Also I've help with gettextizing other projects as well, so I'm sure this can be done. Best regards Helge -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann deb...@helgefjell.de Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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