[tsc-devel] Translations Web Sites...

Chris Jacobsen | Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:30:10 UTC

Hello everyone,

I opened a ticket on using translation web sites such as Transifex a couple days ago.

Here's the content from that ticket:
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@giby had suggested we use Transifex to obtain translations.  Basically this website allows people who speak different languages to contribute translations for different projects through a website.  It is used by Super Tux and a number of other open source projects.  From this site we can generate new versions of translation files that we can then upload into our game.
The URL is: https://www.transifex.com/
If we do not use Transifex, we should at least consider finding some other alternative.  It will otherwise be hard to find translators for a lot of languages.
@Quintus - I am including you on this discussion because you had discussed it with us before.
@xet7 I am including you because you have also been engaged in some translations recently.
I'm also not sure what category this can be assigned in github.
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This is what giby posted:
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Another advantage is you can join the "Arctic game" Organization, and benefit from existing translated strings from SuperTux and FreeDroid-RPG. 
It would make the game more visible for potential players.
Transifex is Free for Foss, open-source engine. There is a free client that allowed to update with a simple command "tx pull" all the translation from the site to the repo. 
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I'd be curious what everyone thinks on this.  Getting started on a site like this now might help us blow through translations for more languages before our next release.

--datahead