[Sugar-devel] Web activities and i10n

[Daniel Narvaez]

We could have activity authors provide the reference properties files in
the locale directory. Bundle builder would generate the pot file from those
using

prop2po -P

When building the xo bundle, it would then generate translated properties
files using

po2prop -t

It seems like it should work and no real code to write other than the build
bits :)





On 4 June 2013 00:05, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, Jed apparently requires converting po to json too, so we won't save
> on the build bits. It probably doesn't solve the problem of extracting
> translatable strings either.
>
>
> On 4 June 2013 00:00, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> An alternative could be to combine webL10N and Jed
>>
>> http://slexaxton.github.io/Jed/
>>
>> Either adapt webL10N to use Jed or add the dom bits of webL10N to Jed.
>> The webL10N code is pretty simple, so it might easier then figuring out how
>> to setup the prop2po build bits.
>>
>>
>> On 3 June 2013 23:20, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I had a look at the code and I don't see anything firefox specific, I
>>> suspect the full API will work on latest webkit (they try to support really
>>> old browsers and that's probably where they only support a basic API).
>>>
>>> The thing I'm not convinced about is using .properties files. But unless
>>> we can find a library which uses gettext and support translating html...
>>> perhaps we can just use prop2po.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 June 2013 22:56, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> we didn't really think about how to support translations of the web
>>>> activities. This is how mozilla is doing it
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/fabi1cazenave/webL10n
>>>>
>>>> It claims to be cross browsers but they have a "modern" API which is
>>>> firefox only. I'm not sure what that exactly mean, but a basic API is
>>>> probably better than having to write our own thing.
>>>>
>>>> They use ini files, but there are tools to convert to and from po files.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/translate-toolkit/en/latest/commands/prop2po.html?id=toolkit/prop2po
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Daniel Narvaez
>>>>
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>>> Daniel Narvaez
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> Daniel Narvaez
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