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0. About this document
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$Id: TRANSLATING,v 1.1 2006/05/20 15:05:38 jylefort Exp $
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Copyright (C) 2006 Jean-Yves Lefort.
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This document is part of Link Monitor Applet. It may be
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distributed under the same terms as Link Monitor Applet.
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To translate Link Monitor Applet, you should have a good
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understanding of the English language, and excellent writing
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skills in the target language. Grammatical, spelling and
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semantic errors should be avoided as much as possible.
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To generate a new .po template, type the following commands:
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LL must be a language code, and CC must be a country code, for
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Consult the gettext and intltool documentation for more
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Translator hints are prefixed with "translators:". Other
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comments must be ignored (the extraction tools blindly copy
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source code comments which precede translatable messages).
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Newlines (\n) must be preserved. Formatting elements must be
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copied literally, but their content must be translated. For
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instance, the message:
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<span weight="bold">Fonts</span>
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translates to French as:
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<span weight="bold">Polices de caractères</span>
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Link Monitor Applet follows the GNOME capitalization
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http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-text-labels.html#layout-capitalization
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Messages which use header capitalization are marked with the
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comment "translators: header capitalization". The header
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capitalization rule of the target language, if any, must be
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applied to these messages.
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Some messages may be prefixed with context information
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(separated from the actual message by the pipe character,
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msgid "icon tooltip's mail summary layout|Co_mpact"
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The purpose of the context information is to allow different
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translations of the same English message. The context must be
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removed from the translations, as in:
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msgid "icon tooltip's mail summary layout|Co_mpact"
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msgid "popup's mail summary layout|Co_mpact"
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Characters following an underline are access keys. The user
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can activate the control labelled by the message by pressing
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Alt-x, where x is the character following the underline.
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When a message contains an access key, assign an appropriate
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access key to the translation by consulting the "Choosing
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Access Keys" section of the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines:
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http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input-keyboard.html#choosing-access-keys
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The application name ("link monitor" or "link monitor applet")
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should be treated as a common noun and translated as such.
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