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HOW TO DO A GOOD TRANSLATION FOR MPLAYER
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We always welcome new translations, but please be aware that
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translations are not just one time jobs. They have to be maintained
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in order to be useful. Otherwise they quickly get outdated and become
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obsolete, useless cruft. That said, we would be happy if you could
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maintain a new documentation translation.
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Documentation related discussions happen on the MPlayer-DOCS mailing list,
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while documentation translation related discussions happen on the
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MPlayer-translations mailing list. If you want to maintain a translation
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you should subscribe to both, as the English documentation Subversion
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changelogs, which you need to keep the translation up to date, are sent
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to MPlayer-DOCS. You can subscribe here:
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http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-docs
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http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-translations
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Send updates and patches to this mailing list or directly to the documentation
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or console message maintainers, see DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS for details.
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Experience shows that translations work best when done by teams. Not only
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can the workload be shared, but there is also the chance to review the
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translation. So if possible try to find more people to help out with
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translating.
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Furthermore, if you take over an unmaintained translation, bring the existing
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parts up-to-date before translating new ones. Outdated information is worse
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than missing information. For console messages and the XML documentation
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missing parts are automatically replaced by the English versions.
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Translations of MPlayer documentation consist of 3 parts in descending
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order of importance:
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1) console messages (help/help_mp-XX.h)
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2) man page
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3) XML documentation
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Please note that only doing 1) or 1) + 2) is perfectly fine.
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You can find the latest versions of the help_mp-XX.h files in Subversion or
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here:
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http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/help/
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help_mp-en.h is the master file that you should use as a base for translations.
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If you are adopting an already existing translation, please check it from top
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to bottom once. Later it should suffice to just translate missing messages.
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Additionally, please make sure that your translated messages fit on an 80
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character wide display to avoid overflowing output.
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TOOLS/mphelp_check.py is a small tool to check translated files. It will report
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conflicting arguments, strings not present in the master file and (optionally)
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strings missing from the translation. Running it as
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mphelp_check.py help_mp-en.h help_mp-XX.h
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will output errors to the screen, just substitute XX with your language code.
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mphelp_check.py -missing help_mp-en.h help_mp-XX.h
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will additionally print untranslated messages to the screen.
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If you do not translate all messages at once, please do not leave untranslated
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messages in your translated file, just leave them out instead. The MPlayer
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build system automatically checks for missing messages and uses the English
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ones instead. This has the added advantage of providing the latest versions of
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the English messages, since English messages in translations may be outdated.
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Furthermore, running help_diff.sh on your translated file will immediately show
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missing messages, which eases further translation.
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If no messages are missing, please add a line similar to
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/* Synced with help_mp-en.h rXXX */
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to the file header, replacing XXX with the revision of help_mp-en.h that your
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translation is in sync with. This way we can easily tell if the translation
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is up to date or not.
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Please note that the help_mp files and the XML documentation are both encoded
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in UTF-8. Editing these files in a program which uses a different encoding
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will result in breaking console messages and HTML.
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Translations are for documentation what porting is for code. Many more eyes
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see it and get to find mistakes. If you stumble over mistakes, inaccuracies,
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clumsy wording, spelling/grammar errors or if you notice that something is
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incomplete, please let us know, we'll fix it. Patches are more than welcome,
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of course. Do not, however, change the translation first, please get your
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update into the English version first.
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If you have Subversion write access and commit a translation update file,
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use something like "synced with rXXX" as first line of the commit message
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so that it is possible to tell with a glance at the Subversion log or ViewVC
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if the translation is outdated and which revision of the English master file
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it is equivalent to.
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If you make (spelling/wording/consistency/etc) changes to a file without
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adapting parts that changed in the English master file, leave the sync
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tag as it is.
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If you make changes to the XML documentation, doublecheck that the
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documentation still builds by running make.
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