Subject: Re: Re[2]: ABIWORD RU TRANSLATE
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@webjockey.net)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 15:05:00 CST
On Saturday 26 January 2002 13:20, Vladimir Stoos' wrote:
> Hello Piotr,
>
> Saturday, January 26, 2002, 6:49:40 PM, you wrote:
>
> PB> [CC-ing this to the developer list, for a reason]
>
> PB> Hi Ivan,
>
> PB> On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, kiwi wrote:
> >> Hello Piotr,
> >>
> >> This is the final version of AbiWORD Russian Language File.
> >> i'll correct all founded bugs and all menus and dialogs
> >> looks like in Microsoft Word'97. (hotkeys, names etc)
> >> I think this helps people who works with Microsoft Word before.
> >> So please send me ru-RU.strings and i'll check it.
> >> I hope that all must OK. Than i'll send you all my coordinates and
> >> you resend this file to developers. Can you?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Ivan
> >> kiwi@pochtamt.ru
>
> PB> Bad news:
> PB> Look at http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/January/
>
> PB> somewhere and notice that someone has already submitted Russian
> strings. I PB> thought it was you who did that, actually, cause it happened
> a few days PB> after I sent you the .strings file updated with the .po file
> you'd PB> created.
>
> PB> This is, I'm afraid, due to the fact that you might have not contacted
> the PB> maintainer of Russian strings before you started (as I advised you
> to and PB> assumed you did) or that there is no official maintainer for
> them. And PB> I've just checked: the file
> http://www.abisource.com/~sam/docs/CREDITS.TXT PB> which should contain
> this information and which you are directed to from PB> AbiWord help files
> is unreachable, so perhaps you didn't even have a way PB> to check that.
> The ru-RU.strings file doesn't give this information PB> either,
> unfortunately. (I cannot check the source right now cause my PB> computer
> at work went kaput and I have to use another.)
>
> PB> I would suggest that you look at those new strings and see if they can
> be PB> corrected, and if so, contact the person who submitted them and
> consult PB> the modifications with him. They don't appear to me to be
> complete, so PB> there is still a lot of room for you there, I hope. Maybe
> one of you will PB> want to become an official maintainer of those strings
> if there is none PB> yet.
>
> PB> Good luck,
> PB> Piotr
>
> I sent corrected strings-file into list about week ago and I didn't want to
> waste someones work - I'm just wanted to help.
>
> There were errors in encodings of text in strings file in officially
> released abiword 0.9.6.1 for Windows 9x - menus were in cp1251 and all
> dialogs in koi8-r - I've just corrected this and sent to list. This file
> was picked up by (I didn't saved original massage of developer, but, if I'm
> not wront - it was Pierre Abbat).
>
> Here is my message into list and those strings in attachment...
I'll take this too.
phma
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