[Sugar-devel] Web activities and i10n

[Daniel Narvaez]

Not sure where to put properties files (both reference and translated).
Perhaps we could just follow mozilla and have them in the locales/
directory. It's a bit too similar to locale, which we are using to generate
translations for native activities but it shouldn't be too confusing since
for web activities that directory shouldn't exist.


On 4 June 2013 00:21, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Daniel Narvaez
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>>> Daniel Narvaez
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>> Daniel Narvaez
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