Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend/Localization
This wiki page is a complement of this discussion thread
Just some brainstorming here. Feel free to add/modify/remove :)
- For Developers
- How to enable localization in your application (for different languages)
- How to write good strings (singular, plural, format strings, ...)
- What to avoid when writing strings (positional arguments, ...)
- How to enable Transifex submissions into your SCM repository
- For Translators
- How to get started / i18n basics
- Translation best practices / common pitfalls
- How to test your translations on the device
- How to commit translations using Transifex
- Available tools
- How to translate packages name and description
- Translators meet Developers
- Goal: Complete translations into Spanish/Catalan/... of community applications by the end of the weekend
- Translators meet Maemo
[edit] Result
The result of the workshop was the Community Localization System. See also a PDF of notes from the workshop.
[edit] Participants
- Joaquim Perez
- Mohammad Anwari
- Josep Sanchez Mesegue
- Gil Forcada
- Andreas Loupasakis (Transifex)
- Cornelius Hald
- Eduard Pertinez
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