[nvda-translations] NVDA source code: working on adding translator comments (ticket 1010)
- From: Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nvda-translations@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:12:49 -0800
Hi fellow translators:
Hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day (lots of chocolate for
many of you, I hope).
I'm working on adding translator comments to translatable strings
in NVDA source code. The current source code indicates that
close to half of the messages have associated translator comments
- a helpful or clarification message to assist translators when
translating messages. This is the solution for trac ticket 1410,
which can be found at:
www.nvda-project.org/ticket/1410
Currently I'm using a branch of main code on my computer to add
translator comments. So far, about 70% of messages have
translator comments. Apart from some difficulties, the process
is going well.
The new comments, which were not merged into main branch yet,
comes from NVDA Preferences dialog, messages related to
AppModules, control types and some NVDA interface messages. Of
the remaining messages, these will have comments later.
The remaining messages (about 400 or so) are categorized into the
following categories (in importance, priority and difficulty in
adding messages):
* Messages heard in input help mode: Some AppModule strings gave
me an idea to add the following comments for input help messages:
Translators: A message heard during input help mode describing
actions for a command.
There are around a hundred (or less). These will be done first,
as I may need to customize some messages to fit certain contexts,
as some commands are only valid in certain situations (for
example, long description command).
* Control types: Most of the control types now have translator
comments (at least at my end). The remaining ones may require
that I read more about them on the web and describe it in short
detail in the comments (by the way, some of the new strings have
example output). I'm waiting for 2013.1 to go live before
working on them (as I'm a student in college).
* Multiple messages on a single line: In this case, I'm waiting
for words from NVDA devs (Mesar included) to work something out
for these ones. Once they're ready, these will also have
translator comments.
* Exceptional cases: One such case is the message "display" found
in app module for Windows calculator. These ones may require
testing the actual app module and looking at surrounding code to
try to come up with useful comment. These will be done last.
As the comments in ticket 1410 states, I plan to make this a
gradual process (I have submitted new strings to devs for code
review in the future).
Thanks.
Cheers,
Joseph
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