Attached is the current consolidated status of the translations in Transifex FA v2.3 project. Anyone interested in maintaining their own languages can PM me for update access specifying the language to be maintained by them.

There is another Transifex project for FA 2.3 started by Gjergj Sheldija mainly for the Albanian language. It will now get redirected here and is privately maintained.

Those who wish to download the latest translations for all languages in one go can unzip the contents of this file into a single folder and then on the Windows command prompt, cd into the folder and then execute tx pull -a and all the .po files will get into the respective lang and install/lang folders whilst the unconfigured ones will get into a po folder.

Tested out GlotPress and it has the same UTF-8 only limitation although it allows for downloading .mo files. It can run as standalone on Windows XAMPP - just tweak the directory settings by replacing "\" with "/".

1. Help pages are outdated.
2. Do not allow downloading of .mo files - no conversion.
3. Needs a desktop client and then use CLI to pull/push.
4. Free for Open Source projects.
5. Supports only UTF-8 for upload and download currently.
6. Bulk Review of Translations does not filter reviewed strings on clicking "download of reviewed strings" link.
7. Displayed languages not sortable (stays in default order of No. of UnTranslated strings, Language Name, Lang Code).
8. Resource wise languages listing not available.
9. The translation pairs are arranged in alphabetical order of the original strings and not in the order of the original resource po file. GlotPress maintains the order of the source resource and preserves the original resource file line numbers in the comments that precede the translations also.

This will make translation easier since it uses crowdsourcing for translation. I think it is a good idea to implement in FA for enhancement. I still don't know the difficulties, though. So let FA team makes the decision.

If I understood the answers well, then the lack of an existing online translation tool - by now - are the required .po files.

What about Pootle and the translation tool kit: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/
TYPO3 is using Pootle and you can get a impression here: http://translation.typo3.org/

Is there a FrontAccounting translation core-team that could take care of the conversion to .po?
On this way FrontAccounting users could more easy participate with translations.

Regards,

AWIDON

Janusz

Joe

We used to translate the messages using poedit or similar tools. According to my feelings the problem here is not lack of tolls, but rather lack of translators .
I'm not sure what we can do to help you with the problem?
Janusz

I once considered cleaning up the Swedish translation, but decided to use it in English instead. (Apparently the poedit version available from the Ubuntu repo was rather buggy, and then even the translations which looked correct turned out not to "line up" with the phrase they were supposed to replace. That was enough to put me off the project.)

Had there been a "translation portal" along the lines spott suggested, I could have changed a word or a phrase without downloading anything and without having to submit a file anywhere. The problem is not so much the lack of translators, but rather the lack of translators wiling to accept responsibility for maintaining a translation.

The current system expects the translator to be a software developer, which obviously limits the number of potential translators available. In fact, any "professional" user (accountants etc.) would have the "domain knowledge" (terminology) required for translating the application. And any literate user would be able to fix typos and spelling mistakes.

Enabling them to do so without commitment would surely lead to better translations.

Janusz

/Joe

riyaz ahmed