Hi Joakin and welcome among inkscape translators
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:23:49 +0100, Joakim Svensson <joakim@...123...> wrote:
Hi. First of all, I would like to thank all the guys involved with Inkscape, it's truly a useful application and it's nice to see how many languages that are supported.
We are glad to hear that :)
This brings me to the point, my native language is Swedish, and the translation for Inkscape with Swedish is far from complete. My English skills are probably enough to make a translation, but although I'm a fairly experienced computer user, I can't make out where to start the translation process. I guess the translation is stored in a separate file of some kind, but where is it?
The file you are looking for is sv.po and is stored in /po directory. You can get actual version of the file for 0.45 release from [1]. It is regular text file with translation definitions but we recommend to use some translation relates tools to translate them, like poedit, gtranslator etc.
Is there anything else, besides this I should know before digging in?
All you would probably like to know about translating Inkscape is described on wiki page [2]. You can find there information about what, how and where can be translated. After the translation, the file should be submited to our patch tracker at sourceforge so we can test it and commit to the release tree.
If there is anything else you would like to ask and we could answer, feel free to. If you would like to have a quick answer, join us at IRC or jabber conference rooms. There is usually at least one person familiar with translations that can help you :)
Sincerely Josef Vybíral a.k.a. cornelius
[1] http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/inkscape/inkscape/bran... [2] http://wiki.inkscape.org:8080/wiki/index.php/Translation_information [3] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604308