Re: Packages without i18n ?
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> news and board. However, it is written entirely in French and is not
> gettext-enabled. The basic functionalities should be accessible for any
Well, gettext-enable it and send the patch upstream :P
> non-French speaking, but the help messages and configuration file
> comments are also written in French.
These should be bilingual, if at all possible.
> Furthermore, some functionalities like "clipouille" and the trollometer
> may be very hard to translate.
Send email to debian-l10n-english (I think that's the name. check list.d.o
for the real name) describing what a "clipouille" and a trollometer do, and
asking for a good translation.
> So I wonder if such software has its place in Debian. Linuxfr.org uses
> DaCode and is browsed by many of our French users, but is it worth the
> inclusion in the archive ?
Yes. If many French need it, it is already good enough to add it in its
current French-only status to Debian, but *write a warning about it in the
package description*.
You don't have to i18n and l10n the app if it will only be of interest to
French users, btw.
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