Machine translation script for closely related languages
The script is used for translating software, using an existing translation to a related language as a source. It uses dictionary translation, i.e. replaces words using a dictionary. Human editor should take a second look, since the translation is not perfect, but it reduces the work from “translate the whole software” to “create dictionary and fix minor mistakes”.
For this software to work, Tranlate Toolkit project must be installed:
Fedora: dnf install translate-toolkit
Ubuntu: apt-get install translate-toolkit
- po_dictum.py - the translation script
- dictionary_ltg.csv - the dictionary for the Latgalina (LTG) language
To gather translateable words for a new dictionary, run
./po_dictum.py -i [path-to-po-file] --new_words dictionary.csv
Open the dictionary.csv in your favourite spreadsheet application and
write translations to the second column. If you believe that the translation
might cause problems down the line (ambiguity, not a real word, etc.), in the
third column write yes. This will inform script that the string should be
reviewed and will be marked fuzzy.
To translate po files using the script, run
./po_dictum.py -i [source] -o [target] --dictionary dictionary.csv
-iinput po file or folder of input po files-ooutput po file or folder of output po files--dictionarydictionary file in a format described above
Some other parameters you might find useful:
--project [GNOME|MOZILLA]if project is specified, it can do a better job at translating files.--new_wordsoutput file with new words not found in the dictionary--all_wordsoutput file with dictionary, which contains both old and new words; useful for updating the existing dictionary
./po_dictum.py -i lv-po/ -o ltg-po --dictionary dictionary_ltg.csv --project MOZILLA
Use the --project MOZILLA, to properly handle mozilla style variables
and acceleratrors