Re: Free site translations

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:24:07 GMT

phpoint2003 wrote:

> I'm looking for someone to translate my site...
> My idea is to "trade" translations with other php developer: I
> translate from english to italian (my mother language) YOUR website
> (thru one or more language files) and you translate from english to
> your mother language (thru one or more language files) MY website.
> One could start by "trading" an Excel file with all the "items" (words
> or whole phrases) to translate with a column describing the item's
> meaning so that it can be translated, and then "trade back" the same
> files with the translated items.

You might want to look into gettext before you start swapping Excel
files. That way you just provide the .po text file and can then use it
to generate the .mo file that the site will use. That way you can have
Your multiple languages easily managed. I had used it for this project:
http://www.sf.net/projects/phpsecurityadm

I have found that it works quite well. The biggest problem is finding
the people to do the translations and keeping them up to date.

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