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Transifex usually defines plural rules for languages according to http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html. So, the plural rule for Turkish language in Transifex is other → everything. However, lately there has been some requests that the Turkish language should have two plural forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n>1) The requests have been with reference to http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms. Here is a quote from a user at https://bitbucket.org/indifex/transifex/issue/26/turkish-plural-forms: Turkish behaves like Akan for example. The rule should be: One: 0, 1 Other: 2-999 ...

Mukti is the annual FOSS festival organised by the GNU/Linux Users Group of NIT Durgapur. Mukti 2012 was held on 3-5th February 2012. I have attended every Mukti in NIT Durgapur from 2008 to 2011 as a student and this time (in 2012) as a speaker. My talk was on Localization and Transifex. NITDGPLUG, as always, put a lot of effort in making Mukti a grand FOSS event in the region. It was a packed with a plethora of events and had a large number of participants. Mukti serves as a great means to get together people interested in FOSS in the Eastern and North Eastern part of India. It helps newbies get more insight into FOSS. ...

#Transifex now supports comments in Apple .strings i18n files. Only /* foo */ style comment in the line preceding the key value pair in the source file is saved as a comment for the key. The example below will explain this in a better way: [sourcecode] /Comment for key1/ “key1” = “value 1”; /* This comment will not be included in key2*/ /* comment for key2*/ “key2” = “value 2”; ...

This week, I upgraded from Fedora 15 to Fedora 16 on my Dell XPS M1530 laptop. This laptop has a 256 MB NVIDIA 8600M GT graphics card. The default driver for NVIDIA cards that came with the installation was nouveau. Nouveau is an open source driver for NVIDIA graphics cards and is under development. Things are becoming better and better with nouveau. I ran gnome-shell for some time with the nouveau driver. 3d rendering worked nicely and without any latency. I did not find any other issue except for some overheating issues. So, I decided to switch to the NVIDIA’s proprietary driver. ...

I arrived in Pune for FUDCON on November 2, 2011. On November 3, 2011, I had an opportunity to visit the Red Hat office in the city and hang around with Fedora community members. I learnt more about the mechanism and importance of localization from Runa Bhattacharjee. In my free time, I also helped with some FUDCON related work. I was able to meet Jared Smith, Joerg Simon and Robert Scheck for the first time in my life, talk with them. I couldn’t ask for anything better. ...

How do you setup Transifex? Here is all you need to know to setup Transifex: http://help.transifex.net/server/install.html http://fosswithme.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/setup-transifex-in-virtualenv/ is another good write-up on how to setup and run Transifex in virtualenv. So, I’d be building on top of that to show you how to start testing Transifex using django-nose. What packages will you need? django-nose, nose, nose-exclude, coverage You can install the above packages using pip install <package_name> Configure Transifex settings to enable django-nose Test Runner ...

Today, I am going to discuss my attempts to parse c style comments. For example, //This is a comment<br></br> ** /***This is also<br></br> *** a comment ***/ ** Initially, I came up with a regex for /…/ style comments : <strong>/*.**/</strong> Well, the above expression was not able to parse comments like: <br></br> /*** This is a comment ***/<br></br>``` I googled and came across [http://ostermiller.org/findcomment.html](http://ostermiller.org/findcomment.html) where I found the regex: `<strong>/*(.|[rn])*?*/</strong>` This was able to match comments like the above one. But it’d also match the following /*…*/ comments which are not really comments: s = “This is a string: /* with a comment /”; //comment1 / foo(); //comment2 */ ``` ...

What is Django-addons? A Django app used to add true plug-n-play functionality to your own Django applications and projects. Django-addons is brought to you by Indifex, the company behind Transifex. Django-addons is a bunch of code that makes writing addon/plugins for your Django project much easier. Add django-addons to your Django project and you can drop all the addons to ‘/addons’ directory. How to install Django-addons? You can install the latest version of django-addons running pip install django-addons or easy_install django-addons ...