[Koha] Translation problems

[Christian Hennecke]

Folks,

apparently the HTML templates are NOT the only things that have to be 
translated, as I was told initially. There are also the files 
koha/updater/updatedatabase, 
koha/misc/marc_datas/marc21_en/structure_def.sql, and 
koha/misc/lang-datas/en/stopwords.sql. These should definitely go into a 
todo list for translators.

Are there any things to consider when translating the MARC file 
structure_def.sql to German e.g., regarding special characters like umlauts?

The file "updatedatabase" has strings with e.g., descriptions of system 
parameters scattered all over the file. It would be nice if the 
developers could make it more translator-friendly by e.g., reading the 
strings from a "message file" so translators don't have to scan all the 
Perl code.

Are there any suggestions on what words to include in a German stopwords 
list? (I know I should ask that on the German Koha list, but it seems to 
be dead.)

Is there anything else to translate that nobody has told me about yet? 
The job that allows me to work on the translation of Koha will be ending 
mid of July and another person's job depends on whether a German Koha is 
ready-to-use at that point...

Christian Hennecke