Thursday, January 20, 2005
no more typos in d-i po files
I finally announced the project I've worked on in the past few week (should I say months?!): a set of shell scripts which automatically spellcheck translations (po files) of the d-i using aspell.
Here's the link in case you wanted to take a look:
Within a few hours I got positive feedback and I'm glad I've been asked already things that were just in the back of my mind for a long time:
"could it be used for other projects (kde,gnome)?"
the answer is yes... the thing is not that flexible yet but one day it'll be indeed
"I see a potential for improving the dictionaries as well, to detect missing words."
definitely; I also think we'll see more languages with a debianized aspell dictionary.