Ubuntuguide.org translations

[matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com]

> The problem would essentially involve how to make a .pot file from the 
> existing .html. This may be possible using the gettext utility, see 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/. If you are interested I can 
> try and play around and see how it goes. Maybe we can talk on irc one of 
> these days, I'll ping you when I'm at home and have time (I'm at college 
> right now). 

Have had a cursory glance around the internet 
(http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/html2pot-po2html/index.html): looks 
easy to do. Seems like the important thing is to have an XHTML compliant 
webpage. I've checked and ubuntuguide seems to comply already :D We might 
have to cut the css out too (not sure). If that were to be done, it should 
be fairly easy to convert it to a .pot file ready for translation :) At the 
very least, this will help the people translating the guide right now, and 
maybe it would even allow us to get the guide into Rosetta. 

Once translated we can also work on a similar process to convert the doc 
back to html. If all goes well, this should also be easy. 

Maybe some of the people translating have already made a .pot file? In any 
case, i might play around with it this evening. 

Matt