In August Productions

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who has helped translating messages for Drizzle so far.

Secondly, congratulations to Dutch and French speakers, since you have translations of all translatable strings! (so far, Mark Atwood is working on an overhaul of the error message system, so I imagine we'll find some more strings that need work)

Italian speakers are close - there are only 76 of 1413 messages untranslated.

After the top three, things fall off a bit. German has 744 untranslated, English (UK) has 905 untranslated (although honestly, there probably aren't that many needing translation). Spanish has 1019 untranslated, Norwegian Bokmal has 1049 and Brazillian Portuguese has 1078. Hindi and Polish round out the top ten with 1243 and 1251 untranslated respectively.

So good job everybody, and thanks for all the hard work! For anyone who wants to pitch in who hasn't, you can just head over to http://translations.launchpad.net/drizzle and jump in

First of all, that's to everyone who's pitched in so far. There are more messages to translate coming... So far we have contributions in 15 different languages. Quite impressive. Check it out:

A slight engineering puzzle is coming up. As you can see from the german output, "Unknown database 'lskfs'" wasn't translated. This is because that error message is actually stiched together on the server and sent back over the wire, so it's not executing in the context of the locale the client is connecting as. That's fine for messages without parameters, but for ones with parameters, which would be the main reason to build on server and send over the wire, running gettext() on the client gets us no where. Not sure what the right answer to this is yet...

Anybody out there know more that one language?
We've got gettext going in the drizzle source now, and although we don't have all the strings marked yet, we do have a start, and it's time to get going on translating!
If you'd like to help out, just head over to launchpad, pick a language and get going! You may want to go to your launchpad settings and pick your preferred languages first, though, else the list of offered languages might be a little odd.
I'm guessing the easiest ones will be "English (Australia), English (Canada) and English (United Kingdom)" ... but I could be wrong...