[i18n] Horde IMP in Japanese

[Thomas Maadie]

Hello, Eric, Jan, and Chuck

As you know, I am trying to fix up the Japanese translation
of Horde.

HUB.ORG was able to set up a good test/work environment for me
this past week.  At $9.99 per month, they were able to give
me my own Virtual Machine with my own copy of Horde CVS/HEAD,
updated on July 30 by HUB.ORG's Marc Fournier.  All the
downloading and installing....all done for me at no additional charge!

All I need to do is look in my own /usr/local/www/webmail
directory and search for ja_JP.po files everywhere.  Then
just fix them up, compile them, look them over and send them to you.
I'm ready to go!

I noticed that your **_**.po files are each an alphabetical
list of translated words from English to a foreign language.
I COULD just look at a more complete translation, such as
French or Taiwanese, and mimic them.

But according to your docs (horde/docs/TRANSLATIONS?r=1.3.2.2),
GNU gettext is supposed to automatically point out the untranslated
portions?  Can you please tell us where I can download this GETTEXT ?
I don't think you provided any links for downloading it within your
documentations.

About the current Japanese translation, I don't think any Japanese
speaking human being can seriously use it.  (sorry for my language here).
For example, messages marked "Personal" are marked "Address Book"
in Japanese.   "Send Message" is translated into "Messages Already Sent".
That's nonsense.  I'm surprised that the Taiwanese translation is up to date,
but the Japanese translation is virtually abandoned right now.
Let's fix it.  I'll do it.

First, please tell me more about GETTEXT and its download location, and
I'll get working on it.  Thank you very much.



At 15:49 07/26/03 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
>Quoting Thomas Maadie <thomas at e-interwave.com>:
>
> > Eric and Jan
> >
> > As you know, I've been looking for a test environment
> > for testing Japanese within CVS/HEAD.
> > I think I found myself one.  I got a good response (below) from HUB.ORG,
> > and signed up for their $9.99 (Bronze) plan.
>
>Okay, though I thought you would just use their free demo, but what ever
>works for you ;)
>
> > Eric, you seem to be concerned about testing something
> > you guys have already fixed.
>
>I just don't want you to waste your time fixing something that is already
>fixed.  Testing it is great, as we always need testing.  Documenting it is
>also great, as we could always use better documentation.
>
> > Will you be sufficiently satisfied if I used the
> > HUB.ORG implementation of CVS/HEAD for testing?
> > (They currently have the June 18th version of
> > CVS/HEAD, and will upgrade again next week.)
>
>Yes.  Once updated, they will be perfect.  :)
>
> > Jan, you have demonstrated to me that Japanese
> > e-mail is already handled properly in CVS/HEAD.
> > How far has the testing been completed already for
> > the Japanese environment?  Is there anything
> > that still needs testing?
>
>Everything needs testing.  Not only IMP, but also the other modules.
>
>--
>Eric Rostetter
>The Department of Physics
>The University of Texas at Austin
>
>Why get even? Get odd!


Thomas Maadie
Interwave Corporation
Email thomas at e-interwave.com
Tel (808) 531-0560
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