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Add translations.bash and translation notes to README. 

translations.bash prints some messages from xz, which
hopefully makes it a bit easier to test translations.
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Lasse Collin 2010-09-23 14:03:10 +03:00
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1.3. Documentation for liblzma
2. Version numbering
3. Reporting bugs
4. Other implementations of the .xz format
5. Contact information
4. Translating the xz tool
5. Other implementations of the .xz format
6. Contact information
0. Overview
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system.
4. Other implementations of the .xz format
4. Translating the xz tool
--------------------------
The messages from the xz tool have been translated into a few
languages. Before starting to translate into a new language, ask
the author that someone else hasn't already started working on it.
Test your translation. Testing includes comparing the translated
output to the original English version by running the same commands
in both your target locale and with LC_ALL=C. Ask someone to
proof-read and test the translation.
Testing can be done e.g. by installing xz into a temporary directory:
./configure --disable-shared --prefix=/tmp/xz-test
# <Edit the .po file in the po directory.>
make -C po update-po
make install
bash debug/translations.bash | less
bash debug/translations.bash | less -S # For --list outputs
Repeat the above as needed (no need to re-run configure though).
Note especially the following:
- The output of --help and --long-help must look nice on
a 80-column terminal. It's OK to add extra lines if needed.
- In contrast, don't add extra lines to error messages and such.
They are often preceded with e.g. a filename on the same line,
so you have no way to predict where to put a \n. Let the terminal
do the wrapping even if it looks ugly. Adding new lines will be
even uglier in the generic case even if it looks nice in a few
limited examples.
- Be careful with column alignment in tables and table-like output
(--list, --list --verbose --verbose, --info-memory, --help, and
--long-help):
* All descriptions of options in --help should start in the
same column (but it doesn't need to be the same column as
in the English messages; just be consistent if you change it).
Check that both --help and --long-help look OK, since they
share several strings.
* --list --verbose and --info-memory print lines that have
the format "Description: %s". If you need a longer
description, you can put extra space between the colon
and %s. Then you may need to add extra space to other
strings too so that the result as a whole looks good (all
values start at the same column).
* The columns of the actual tables in --list --verbose --verbose
should be aligned properly. Abbreviate if necessary. It might
be good to keep at least 2 or 3 spaces between column headings
and avoid spaces in the headings so that the columns stand out
better, but this is a matter of opinion. Do what you think
looks best.
- Be careful to put a period at the end of a sentence when the
original version has it, and don't put it when the original
doesn't have it. Similarly, be careful with \n characters
at the beginning and end of the strings.
- Read the TRANSLATORS comments that have been extracted from the
source code and included in xz.pot. If they suggest testing the
translation with some type of command, do it. If testing needs
input files, use e.g. tests/files/good-*.xz.
- When updating the translation, read the fuzzy (modified) strings
carefully, and don't mark them as updated before you actually
have updated them. Reading through the unchanged messages can be
good too; sometimes you may find a better wording for them.
- If you find language problems in the original English strings,
feel free to suggest improvements. Ask if something is unclear.
- The translated messages should be understandable (sometimes this
may be a problem with the original English messages too). Don't
make a direct word-by-word translation from English especially if
the result doesn't sound good in your language.
In short, take your time and pay attention to the details. Making
a good translation is not a quick and trivial thing to do. The
translated xz should look as polished as the English version.
5. Other implementations of the .xz format
------------------------------------------
7-Zip and the p7zip port of 7-Zip support the .xz format starting
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http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html
5. Contact information
6. Contact information
----------------------
If you have questions, bug reports, patches etc. related to XZ Utils,

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#!/bin/bash
###############################################################################
#
# Script to check output of some translated messages
#
# This should be useful for translators to check that the translated strings
# look good. This doesn't make xz print all possible strings, but it should
# cover most of the cases where mistakes can easily happen.
#
# Give the path and filename of the xz executable as an argument. If no
# arguments are given, this script uses ../src/xz/xz (relative to the
# location of this script).
#
# You may want to pipe the output of this script to less -S to view the
# tables printed by xz --list on a 80-column terminal. On the other hand,
# viewing the other messages may be better without -S.
#
###############################################################################
#
# Author: Lasse Collin
#
# This file has been put into the public domain.
# You can do whatever you want with this file.
#
###############################################################################
set -e
# If an argument was given, use it to set the location of the xz executable.
unset XZ
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
XZ=$1
[ "x${XZ:0:1}" != "x/" ] && XZ="$PWD/$XZ"
fi
# Locate top_srcdir and go there.
top_srcdir="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "$0")" && cd .. && pwd)"
cd -- "$top_srcdir"
# If XZ wasn't already set, use the default location.
XZ=${XZ-"$PWD/src/xz/xz"}
if [ "$(type -t "$XZ" || true)" != "file" ]; then
echo "Give the location of the xz executable as an argument" \
"to this script."
exit 1
fi
XZ=$(type -p -- "$XZ")
# Print the xz version and locale information.
echo "$XZ --version"
"$XZ" --version
echo
if [ -d .git ] && type git > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Source code version in $PWD:"
git describe --abbrev=4
fi
echo
locale
echo
# Make the test files directory the current directory.
cd tests/files
# Put xz in PATH so that argv[0] stays short.
PATH=${XZ%/*}:$PATH
# Some of the test commands are error messages and thus don't
# return successfully.
set +e
for CMD in \
"xz --foobarbaz" \
"xz --memlimit=123abcd" \
"xz --memlimit=40MiB -6 /dev/null" \
"xz --memlimit=0 --info-memory" \
"xz --memlimit-compress=1234MiB --memlimit-decompress=50MiB --info-memory" \
"xz --verbose --verbose /dev/null | cat" \
"xz --lzma2=foobarbaz" \
"xz --lzma2=foobarbaz=abcd" \
"xz --lzma2=mf=abcd" \
"xz --lzma2=preset=foobarbaz" \
"xz --lzma2=mf=bt4,nice=2" \
"xz --lzma2=nice=50000" \
"xz --help" \
"xz --long-help" \
"xz --list good-*lzma2*" \
"xz --list good-1-check*" \
"xz --list --verbose good-*lzma2*" \
"xz --list --verbose good-1-check*" \
"xz --list --verbose --verbose good-*lzma2*" \
"xz --list --verbose --verbose good-1-check*" \
"xz --list --verbose --verbose unsupported-check.xz"
do
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
echo
echo "\$ $CMD"
eval "$CMD"
echo
done 2>&1