[WG: I18N & L10N] I18N & L10N] First steps with i18n using Benten

Shoji Kajita kajita at nagoya-u.jp
Tue Feb 14 02:53:35 PST 2012


Hi Jean-Francois,

Thank you for the informatin.

I will give you my best practice with same examples soon to get
started and improve your translation work using Benten. I hope it will
dramatically improve your translation quality for French.

Shoji at Bellevue, WA

At Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:48:53 +0100,
Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
> 
> Hi Shoji, Yuki and Frederic,
> 
> I did the TMX generation using Linux.
> 
> When does it fail for you on Mac OS X ?
> 
> I still don't understand how the TM part of Benten works. I naively 
> thought a TMX file could directly be used by Benten.
> 
> Frederic and myself need the whole recipe for making new translations 
> with help from the old ones.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> J-F
> 
> On 14/02/2012 06:03, Shoji Kajita wrote:
> > Hi Jean-Francois and Yuki,
> >
> > I'm now writing the instruciton to use Benten on Confuluence, but I
> > cannot generate TMX on Mac OS X based on Yuki's instruction.
> >
> > Are both of you using Windows?
> >
> > Please let me know,
> > Shoji
> >
> > At Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:28:07 +0100,
> > Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Yuki,
> >>
> >> Thanks, I've now been able to produce a TMX file.
> >>
> >> I suppose you get errors like
> >>> java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find resource for bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key sakai.samigo.tool.title
> >> when the key is only in one file and not in the other. Am I right?
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >> Jean-Francois Leveque
> >>
> >> On 17/01/2012 17:46, Yuki Yamada wrote:
> >>> Hi Jean-Francois,
> >>>
> >>> I'm using Benten for translation of Sakai. It seems that Benten does not have a function for generating the Translation Memory
> >>> (TMX). Therefore, I am doing as follows:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Download import_properties_1.4_1.zip from
> >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/omegat/files/Other%20-%20Utilities/Java%20.properties%20Import%201.4%20update%201/ . It is a tool
> >>> for generating TMX from .properties files.
> >>> 2. Unpack it, and run as "java -jar properties-import.jar".
> >>> 3. A dialog will open. Choose the default bundle as EN-US, and choose the localization language which you'd like to localize to.
> >>> 4. Choose the top folder of the Sakai sources which you checked out, and choose any folder to save TMX file.
> >>> 5. Push import button, and wait for a while. Then, TMX file will be generated.
> >>> 6. Move the TMX file to tmx folder of Benten. Check the preference from Window->Preferences->Translation->TM Preference->TMX
> >>> Location->Next Location on Benten. Now, the TMX can be used on Benten.
> >>>
> >>> Sincerely,
> >>> Yuki Yamada
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Jean-Francois Leveque"<jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>
> >>> To:<i18n at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:16 PM
> >>> Subject: [WG: I18N&   L10N] First steps with i18n using Benten
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I've been able to install and run Benten
> >>>> (http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/benten/) by myself with the project
> >>>> documentation and google translation.
> >>>>
> >>>> When I tried to set a project with all properties files of
> >>>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/sakai-trunk-all, it
> >>>> didn't work. I then tried with the ones in its access subdirectory and
> >>>> it worked.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've been able to work on translating the xliff files and export the
> >>>> translation results.
> >>>>
> >>>> One thing which I now need to learn is how to build and use the
> >>>> Translation Memory.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can someone help me with this, whether you know where the documentation
> >>>> is or you have Japanese skills and can help finding the information?
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Jean-Francois


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