website translation

[Jean-Charles]

I have downloaded the cvstree of the new website a couple of hours ago.

The french po file is allready "francisée" (as a matter of fact, it is 
the shortest).

I thought about the way to deal with all the files and came to the point 
that you can proceed in different manners:

1- Having the files translated on the fly (standalone brainstorming). 
Retyping them from the first to last character would enforce enormous 
maintaining work. Thousands of them for each release. My poor phalanx!.. 
but you may get help by a voice input software. To many corrections 
afterwords.

2- Using a translation memory tool/application. Might be a not so bad 
idea. Being a "petit fonctionnaire" does not allow me to spend so much 
money in a professional software just for my dear Lily, especially as 
they are proprietary... The only one I found is based on a java script,  
his name is omegat (http://www.omegat.org/omegat/omegat.html). I have 
played with it a little and it seems to be ok for me and my needs. As 
far as I can tell for the moment, it still chockes on openning a couple 
of files but I am trying to isolate those and let you know.


Building a translation team would be of interest, but how to do? Each 
member get some files to translate and review others' work, or a web 
based memory to be shared and regularily updated. The latter would be in 
my opinion more interesting for many reasons (time sharing and saving 
among others).


Just a question to Jan: how did you proceed for Dutch?

Sorry if I am disturbing, but I just wanted to contribute.

Regards,
Jean-Charles