Re: 5.0.0 Release Checklist - Item #12 - Internationalization

[Torsten]

On 30.12.18 17:05, Torsten wrote:
> On 30.12.18 14:49, Andreas Weber wrote:
>> Am 25.12.18 um 23:05 schrieb Torsten:
>>> On 25.12.18 17:45, Andreas Weber wrote:
>>>> As far as I can see de_DE.ts is already complete?
>>>
>>> In my repo (stable branch), there are several translations missing in
>>> de_DE.ts, e.g. the settings-dialog (end of the list in linguist) only
>>> has 126 translated string of 144 total strings.
>>
>> Oh sorry, my bad. I thought we are still on default until the 5.0 release.
>>
>> Can we please have a shell script inside libgui or libgui/languages to
>> do the update (or at least document the exact steps to do it)?
>>
>> Years ago I've used something like:
>>
>> octave-src/libgui$ lupdate -recursive -no-obsolete -locations relative
>> src qterminal graphics -ts languages/*ts
>>
>> Thank you, Andy
> 
> Hi Andy,
> 
> Your command is the one I am using, too (the option -recursive is the
> default). In the script which I am using, there is also a check for
> language files of the qt and qscintilla distribution for the currently
> updated language. If these files are not present, some header files of
> qt and qscintilla are also scanned for translatable strings in order to
> get a fully translated octave program.
> 
> Please find attached the script, which has to be called from within the
> folder libgui/languages. Adding it to the repo is a good idea but before
> this, I would like to make it more (e.g., detecting qt and qscintilla
> install path). However, providing the relevant qt and qscintilla headers
> for languages that are not supported by qt and/or qscintilla has to be
> done manually.
> 
> If we decide not to translate qt/qscintilla messages but only the octave
> specific strings, we can drop the extra scan of qt/qscintilla headers
> and simplify the update procedure of the language files.
> 
> Best regards
> Torsten
> 

And here the promised attachment ...

Torsten

octave_lang
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