Re: Italian Translation of the Guix Manual

[Hubert Lombard <contact@hubert-lombard.website>]

Le Sat, 24 Oct 2020 19:37:02 +0200,
Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835@gmail.com> a écrit :

Hi!

> > It's nice to read this :-) By the way, is it
> > possible, if it seems necessary, to modify directly the .po file by
> > hand with a simple text editor ?  
> 
> Sure, the po format is a text format that can be edited with the means
> you estimate best for the task.
 
Good to know !

> Usually higher level tools are more
> adequate for the daily work, but a sed command to fix a typo might be
> faster sometimes. :-)

It is certain that if I learn sed, it will be useful. I find that Guix 
System is an incentive to improve in bash.
 
> It's cool to understand the tools, even though not all of them are
> oriented to the translators, but to the developers and maintainers as
> xgettext.  They are different points of view of the overall
> localization process.
> 
> If you want to learn, the gettext manual might have some outdated
> sections, mainly about the translation tools, but there's a lot of
> knowledge contained there, and all the info is very useful.

Yes, for example, I was able to produce a .pot file, .msg messages and 
other tricks like displaying the file in the terminal with messages in color... 

> > It will be a great pleasure for me to contribute with succes, and
> > these answers will help me :-)  
> 
> Just one more thing: *any contribution is a success*, they push
> towards a better system. :-)

Again, many thanks for your answer :-)

Kind regards,
 
Hubert