Skype

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2014-03-17 13:07, Michael Bauer wrote:
> Question. We run a community translation project for the lang and ts/qm
> files for Skype (we're not Windows, before anyone asks) over on
> Transifex
> (https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/skype-translation-project/). It
> started off with a focus on smaller, unsupprted languages for Windows
> but since we figured out how to do the files for Linux, a number of
> larger languages have also come onboard, like Greek or Brazilian.
> 
> We currently generate the ts/qm files manually and then put them on
> SourceForge
> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/skypeinyourlang/files/Linux/) with
> instructions (there's a moderatly annoying name change you have to
> implement)
> https://sourceforge.net/p/skypeinyourlang/wiki/Installing%20a%20language%20file/
> about how to do that on Linux.
> 
> Is there any interest to somehow bundle these with Ubuntu so people
> don't have to do this themselves?

I have created ppa:gunnarhj/skype-translation.

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/skype-translation

The PPA includes the Linux translations with > 95% of the strings
translated, and my intention is to add further translations once they
reach that coverage level. You may want to give me a hint.

Please note that there is a technical restriction as regards the number
of translations that can be distributed this way. In a few cases you can
use the actual language code in the file names, but otherwise you need
to replace the language code with two digits in the range 00 - 09, and 3
of those 10 positions are already 'taken'...

Currently the PPA includes these packages:
* skype-translation-gd (Scottish Gaelic)
* skype-translation-hu (Hungarian)
* skype-translation-ms (Malaysian)
* skype-translation-nl (Dutch)
* skype-translation-sr (Serbian)
* skype-translation-sv (Swedish)

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj