Re: [docbook-apps] Re: [i18n-discuss] Online help (ru, uk, etc), search

[Marja van Waes <marja11@xs4all.nl>]

On 14/12/13 20:21, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi Marja,
> Regarding how the locale files work, the source files you see in
> svn.code.sf.net are processed by a Perl script into the distributed
> locale files in the "common" directory.  The process uses en.xml as the
> master file that must include all newly-added strings.  At build time,
> any locale that does not have a given translated string is backfilled by
> the English string, and labeled lang="en".  The presence of the string
> prevents error messages regarding missing strings in such locales. The
> assumption is that for most people it would be better to have English
> than nothing. When the strings are translated and checked into the
> locale source file, then that backfilling is not necessary.
>
> The DocBook project relies on contributions from native speakers to keep
> the locale files up to date, but we don't currently have a proactive
> process to keep all 74 of them updated when new strings are added to
> English.  If you are a non-English speaker and would like to contribute
> for your language, you can review your locale file in any distribution
> or snapshot (such as common/et.xml), search for all strings with
> lang="en", and submit a set of translations.

Thanks, Bob :-)

I'll try to find time asap to do the Dutch translation (but need do some 
other things before l10n and documentation freeze for coming Mageia 4, 
first)