Re: translation of Emacs manual into Japanese

[Takesi Ayanokoji <ayanokoji.takesi@gmail.com>]

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Of course I want to continue translation work in Emacs's future release ;-)

Regards.
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Ayanokoji Takesi <ayanokoji.takesi@gmail.com>

2016/09/30 午前0:10 "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>:

> > From: Takesi Ayanokoji <ayanokoji.takesi@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:59:49 +0900
> >
> > Instead, I extracted translatable string from emacs-24.5's texi to PO
> files by using po4a utility, and then
> > translate these PO file.
> > After translation, I generate translated emacs-24.5's texi files from
> original texis and translated PO file by using
> > po4a utility again.
> >
> > Up to that, this was a heavy work for me because I translated over 600
> pages manual from nearly scratch.
> > But after then, emacs-25.1 was released, updating translated manual was
> easy.
> >
> > I extracted translatable string from emacs-25.1's texi to PO files by
> using po4a utility, and then translate these
> > PO file from emacs-24.5's translated PO files by using gettext's merge
> utility.
> >
> > At this point, this merged emacs-25.1's PO files ware almost Japanese
> but a few part that made changes in
> > this release remain English.
> >
> > I translated untranslated part of PO files, and then generate Japanese
> manual in fact.
> >
> > But if I did not translate these PO manually, this cause emacs-25.1
> manual almost Japanese a few English.
> >
> > This not means that the manual is outdated, it means up-to-date but not
> completely translated.
>
> AFAIU, the technique you used makes every paragraph of the manual a PO
> string, and then translates each such string.  This, of course, avoids
> translating the same text again for the next version, but it will
> leave any changed paragraphs in their English form.  With time, more
> and more of the manual will become English if the translation is not
> updated, so the danger of becoming outdated still exists, sort of.
>
> Thanks.
>

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