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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:02:10PM +0100, André S. wrote:
> Hi everyone!

Now I have a little more time to reply to this properly...

> I'm planning translating some of the kicad-doc to German.

good!

> However I could not find any information if there is a "head of
> translation" or any German translation team.
> Is there anyone I could approach for checking my results if done?

I did create a template for German for tijuca (if he is not you...)

https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/pull/34#issuecomment-164576706

> Also: I'm not quite sure what's the current source and how to go from there.
> I did fork and then clone https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc from github.

good

> The different translations seem to live in src/$program_module/po/
> Is it enough to copy one of the existing translation files
> {it|ja|pl}.po to de.po and then just put in there the German
> translation?

yes but there is already a german template... for "getting started..."
that is a good start...

> Is poedit (on Ubuntu) the right tool to use?

is this a philosofical question? :-) yes any .po file editor could go...
I use emacs...

> Or can this do some unwanted stuff?

no...

> Thanks for reading and waiting for answers.

You welcome!
Regards,

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