[wp-polyglots] Re: gettexted Theme (was: HTML entities in translated strings)

[wohack]

On 13/mar/08, at 10:15, Christian Barmala wrote
>
> I also considered the Sandbox theme, which is a solid foundation and
> from this perspective good candidate for a WordPress default theme. It
> is gettexted and "Skins" are a more lightweigth layout mechanism than
> creating a whole theme. ... so far for the theory. Most style  
> developers
> prefer to create a whole new theme derived from Sandbox rather than
> using the simple Skin mechanism.
>
> And coming back to the original "Tellerrand"-issue: Where do I find a
> good German translation of Sandbox? It's actually in Milan's list  
> and I
> find sandbox.pot in the Internet, but you pointed out, that  
> translations
> may vary in quality.
>

Christian, translating a theme once it is gettexed is an amazingly  
simple job.
Unfortunatly the page in WP Codex about themes in your language,  
which for sure you have read and probaly got frightened, makes it  
sound like something only "experts" can do. Forget that.

So, once you have found a theme you like and made sure it is  
gettexed, you can translate it yourself in very little time. Suchly  
the translation will be totally up to your expectations and fine  
tuned to your personal needs.
All you need is Poedit (google for it), an amazing little app which  
comes for free both for Nix and Windows, and a good comand of the  
language you want to translate into. Not even the POT file is necessary.

BTW you can find the POT for Sandbox  online now because me and  
others kept on bugging the Sandbox outher for it. Sandbox  deserves  
to be translated into German also, is is so pleasant to work with.


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