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Sutharsan,

Before answering your questions - thanks for your interest. From my answers below, you'll see we're lacking native speakers who would like to coordinate specific languages - if you're interested in taking over Dutch translation coordination, you're most welcome to join in and - through your ideas and feedback - help us build more formal support infrastructure for translators.

Going straights to answers:

Ad 1 -  no, we don't have guidelines. We didn't get to the stage of coordinating language versions yet. For people interested in translating, we're just providing this forum as means of communication and translation server using Pootle (http://translations.civicrm.org/). We usually set up new languages on our translations server per request - whenever someone wants to start working on new language version.

Ad 2 - No word list (if I understand well what you mean under this term), neither shared translation memory, see above.

Ad 3 - We only have one discussion forum for translators, namely this one.

Ad 4 - In general, we merge in the changes from http://translations.civicrm.org/ into our repository every 1-2 weeks and before most of major releases. Therefore, each change made on our translation server is usually available in nearest release. Since we don't have neither volunteers nor resources to provide per language coordination, changes are not moderated, just coming in as they are submitted. We count on community feedback to verify if translations are ok.

Thx,
m

Sutharsan,

Wordlist and translation guidelines would be lovely for a start. Do you have idea/preference of how would you like them to be made available for Dutch CiviCRM translators, or would you like me to propose something? First thing that comes to my head is putting those resources on our wiki - I can reorganise the translators section to fit in this resource, and possibly make it a start for collecting similar resources for other languages.

Let me know what you think.

Thx,
m

Let's go with the wiki then.

I've set up initial page here: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Translator+resources Let's see where we go for the starters - if we decide we have proper resource for other translators, we can move this page under formal CiviCRM documentation structure.

If you would like to add anything to this page or attach a file to it, it's enough to set up an account on the wiki and you should have all the necessary permissions. If you would rather send me information that you would like to have posted on the wiki, just drop me a note at michal in civicrm.org domain.

Thx,
m

I managed to make changes on .Po files, but I haven't managed to change them back into .mo

What operating system are you using? On Unix/Linux systems, it should be sufficient to run

msgcat *.po | msgfmt -vo civicrm.mo -


Hm, I have zero experience with working on PO/MO files in Windows. What do you use for translations? It seems Poedit has at least some kind of PO → MO compilation utility.

@civive: I have added my wordlist for Dutch translation to http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Translator+resources
Please use this to improve the consistency of the Dutch translation.

Thanks! Looks like a good start. :-)

Thx,
m