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Re: [Orekit Users] Preparing Orekit 6.0 release
Le 10/04/2013 09:05, Luc Maisonobe a écrit :
> Hi Michael,
>
> Le 10/04/2013 04:55, Michael Turner a écrit :
>> "One remaining thing is the update of the error messages translations in
>> various languages. We would be happy if some of our users could
>> contribute to this task, either by providing translations or reviewing
>> the messages we already have. We already have initial files for English,
>> French, Galician, German, Italian, Spanish and Norse languages but we
>> would be happy to add any other languages the community may provide."
>>
>> What's your sense of how long it would take to provide a complete set of
>> error messages for Orekit, for a given language? There's a Space Apps
>> Challenge event here in Tokyo (April 20-21). Adding Japanese might be a
>> nice touch.
>
> Sure it would be nice!
>
> There are currently 112 messages to translate, each one being one
> sentence long. According to one of the translator, it takes only a few
> hours to do.
I have just pushed a slight modification allowing the files to be
directly read in UTF-8. This will probably simplify the translation
work for everybody.
Luc
>
> best regards,
> Luc
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:10 PM, MAISONOBE Luc <luc.maisonobe@c-s.fr
>> <mailto:luc.maisonobe@c-s.fr>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The 6.0 version of Orekit is nearly complete now. The Project
>> Management Committee recently gave its go ahead for the release. The
>> major features desired for this version are implemented and the
>> version 3.2 of the Apache Commons Math library we need has been
>> officially released a few days ago. The Orekit development team is
>> currently closing the latest issues. The target release date for
>> version 6.0 is before the end of the month.
>>
>> One remaining thing is the update of the error messages translations
>> in various languages. We would be happy if some of our users could
>> contribute to this task, either by providing translations or
>> reviewing the messages we already have. We already have initial
>> files for English, French, Galician, German, Italian, Spanish and
>> Norse languages but we would be happy to add any other languages the
>> community may provide.
>>
>> The translation files are available on the forge here:
>> <https://www.orekit.org/forge/__projects/orekit/repository/__revisions/master/show/src/__main/resources/assets/org/__orekit/localization
>> <https://www.orekit.org/forge/projects/orekit/repository/revisions/master/show/src/main/resources/assets/org/orekit/localization>>,
>> they will be updated as we receive translations. These are simple
>> Java properties files, with non-ASCII characters encoded using
>> unicode conventions (this mean we can support any writing systems).
>> Creating a file for a new language simply means copying one of the
>> existing files and changing the translated text. Even incomplete
>> translations would be welcome, the missing text being replaced by
>> the "<MISSING TRANSLATION!>" marker which is automatically
>> recognized by the library (in which case the English message is used
>> instead of the native language one, so there is no loss of
>> information for users).
>>
>> Of course, translation contributors are credited for their work and
>> their names will appear in the <contributors> section in the
>> distribution.
>>
>> If you want to contribute, you can create an issue in our tracking
>> system <https://www.orekit.org/forge/__projects/orekit/issues
>> <https://www.orekit.org/forge/projects/orekit/issues>> and attach
>> you contributed files to it. If you don't know the proper unicode
>> encoding for specific characters, just use your native encoding when
>> storing the file and tell us which encoding you used (standard ISO
>> or platform specific encodings). We will take care to do the
>> conversion. If you want to review or update an existing file and
>> cannot read the existing unicode encoding, just ask us and we will
>> provide you a version of the file with ISO accented characters.
>>
>> Thanks you in advance for your contributions.
>>
>> Luc, on behalf of the Orekit team
>>
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>> --
>> Regards,
>> Michael Turner
>>
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