[Sugar-devel] Web activities and i10n

[Daniel Narvaez]

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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