Re: [L10N] Recently added strings: Burmese and Philippines
Hi,
Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Holger Wansing (linux@wansing-online.de):
> > #. Type: select
> > #. Choices
> > #: ../keyboard-configuration.templates:16001
> > msgid "Philippines"
> > msgstr ""
> >
> >
> > I wonder if the second one shouldn't be "Philippine" or "Filipino"
> > or something like that, so that it describes the language, not the
> > country.
> > ???
>
>
> It's the country. Indeed this is a keyboard mapping. Somethimes these
> are named after the language name, sometimes after the country name
> (particularly in countries where multiple languages are in use...or
> when there is a national standard for keyboard mapping).
>
> This is indeed not particularly consistent, admitedly, but this is
> what upstream has.
No, I cannot find an entry in the list to choose the language from, where
the name of the country is shown IMHO.
Could you give examples?
As far as I can see, that are all language names.
BTW: in the RC1 installer, I cannot find "Philippines" in the list,
not in the text-based and not in the graphical installer, while "Burmese"
is there. ???
> So, for "Burmese", you should put the language name in your
> translation and for "Philippeines", I'd suggest putting the country
> name.
Holger
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