[RE: [Spip-en] Various SPIP Questions]

Hi Paolo, I'd really love to help so I'll look into this and will definitely
keep you both informed. On your advice, I'll leave the articles until the new
version comes out.

You're right, I'd noticed a few unusual terms - what I'll do is go through what
I think needs changing and then suggest them to yourselves before I make the
alteration. Ca marche?

One discrepancy I'd noticed as well was in a couple of the 'alt' tags in IE. I
work using Mozilla so someone else pointed this out to me - two examples are the
calendar and browser icons in the top navigation bar. In Mozilla they translate
fine as 'Calendar' and 'Quick Browsing', whereas in IE they change to 'nav' and
'jour'. Is that something I could help with?

r

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Subject: RE: [Spip-en] Various SPIP Questions
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:31:08 +0200
From: Paolo <paolo2@taize.fr>
To: <spip-en@rezo.net>

Roger Warner wrote:

I'd like to try my hand at any untranslated French-English
articles as a way
of putting back into the community - my French isn't great but it's
passable, so let me know if I can help.

Roger,

There are some articles which still need doing. If you see anything good to

do, I don't want to discourage you. However, Spip 1.8 is going to usher in so
many changes, that I don't feel it's very worthwhile translating much more
technical documentation until it comes out.

On the other hand, some of the private area English interface and the Online

help could do with being made more "English", some of it is in franglais. (For
example I was looking at "Site's evolution" the other day, and wondering what it
meant...) Perhaps you've noticed something which needs changing too?

You can sign up to get a login here:
SPIP

and then login to the online translation interface:
http://www.spip.net/trad-lang/trad_lang.php3

there you can correct short strings (you need to keep going back to the

private area to see the changes you are making are appearing where you expect
them to appear).

One way of doing it is looking at the English (private area and online help),

seeing something that needs to be changed, switching to French to check (if the
meaning is really very unclear), then using the search box in the online
translation interface to search for the string in English which needs reworking.

If you do take this on, it would be good to keep George Kandalaft

(george@diwanalarab.com) and me informed of what you are doing (unlike the Spip
articles, the online translation interface does not have any system for
notifying changes).

best wishes,
Paolo

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Roger wrote:

One discrepancy I'd noticed as well was in a couple of the
'alt' tags in IE. I
work using Mozilla so someone else pointed this out to me -
two examples are the
calendar and browser icons in the top navigation bar. In
Mozilla they translate
fine as 'Calendar' and 'Quick Browsing', whereas in IE they
change to 'nav' and
'jour'. Is that something I could help with?

Roger,
Yes, I see the same thing happens in French too (different 'hints' in different browsers).
It seems to be because both the 'alt' and the 'title' tags are defined. Mozilla/Firefox display the title tag and IE displays the 'alt' tag.

However, I just checked with Spip 1.8 beta (CVS), and both browsers give the correct 'hint' text. So it looks like it has already been taken care of for the future.

If you look a little further along the menu bar, you've got things like "Changing interface colour" - just "Change interface colour" would be better, wouldn't it? If you look a bit, I think you'll find a lot of things like that.
If possible, install yourself a copy of Spip 1.8 CVS and look at that, because that way you won't be seeing translations that are out-of-date.

Paolo