FiberQ in Georgian¶
A study notebook, not a manual. This is where I write down what I learn about FiberQ and about fibre network design — one term, one button at a time.
Who is writing this, and why
I come from the GIS and QGIS-plugin side and am not a fibre specialist. That is precisely why this site exists: whatever I work out stays here so I do not have to work it out twice. If something is wrong, that is a bug — open an issue or edit the page.
About this English edition
Georgian is the primary language of this site; every page is also available in English. Where a page has no English version yet, it falls back to the Georgian text rather than 404ing.
The page most likely to be useful to an English reader is the glossary — the English → Georgian terminology reference prepared for the FiberQ catalogue, and the thing this whole site was built around.
What this is for¶
FiberQ is an open-source QGIS plugin for designing FTTH/GPON/FTTx networks, by Vladimir Vukovic, GPL-3.0-or-later, funded by the NLnet NGI0 Commons Fund.
This site accompanies the Georgian translation of its interface — 306 catalogue strings — and collects the domain knowledge needed to do that translation honestly.
Translation status¶
| Upstream issue | vukovicvl/fiberq#43 — open |
| Catalogue | fiberq/i18n/fiberq_ka.ts — does not exist yet |
| Drafted | 306 / 306 strings (100%) |
| Waiting on | the maintainer to generate the empty .ts file |
Georgian will be FiberQ's first real translation: the French catalogue has 0 of 306 strings filled in, the Serbian one has 3.
Three things the translator notes taught me¶
The FiberQ catalogue carries 95 <extracomment> notes written by the maintainer. They
are not decoration — three of them changed terms I would otherwise have got wrong:
Object means building. It renders the legacy Serbian objekat. Georgian QGIS
already translates the GIS term feature as ობიექტი — literally "object" — so the
obvious translation would have been wrong in about ten strings.
Route is the physical alignment on the ground, not a travel route and not a file
path. Georgian has a dedicated engineering word for this, ტრასა.
Cut infrastructure is geometry editing, not a fault. The fault concept is a
separate string, Fiber break. Georgian keeps the two lexically apart.
How this site grows¶
- Every term is keyed on its English name. English is the working language of the
field, and site search depends on it — Georgian has no stemmer in lunr, so
ბოძიwill not matchბოძის. - Sources are always named. Where a definition comes from FiberQ's code or from a
maintainer's
<extracomment>, it says so. Where it is my own inference, it says that too. - Doubt stays visible. An unsettled term is marked, not smoothed over. A wrong term that looks finished does more damage than an open question.