Re: Why isn't apt internationalized?

[Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>]

* Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> [011221 15:03]:
> [I hadn't realized that deity@ is a Deity-Developers-only list, so I'm
> not sure whether my first mail got anywhere or not. I repost it here and
> apologize to all receiving it twice.]
> 
> One thing that makes me wonder is why apt still not internationalized.
> What are the problems? A quick run on my home machine didn't show any
> particular problems. A small patch, some translations, et voilá:
> 
>    Es müssen 0B/53,7MB der Archive geholt werden. Nach dem Auspacken
>    werden 2003kB benutzt.

I'm not opposed to translations, but if you're going to translate,
please be careful. The above translation may be quite exact, still it's
quite hard to understand the meaning if you don't know the english
original: I would translate this with "Nach dem Auspacken werden
zusätzlich 2003kB belegt."

This is to say: In some instances, even no translation is better than a
bad translation.

    Gregor