Re: Manpages translation
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:07:13PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:01:10PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:31:17PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:33:05PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > > > > Looking at the sources is mostly something a translator would need to do
> > > > > > when translations are first being added to a package.
>
> > > > > Wrong, l10n and i18n are different issues.
>
> > > You may read
> > > info -n '(gettext) Concepts'
> > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-intro.en.html
>
> > I suspect Mark meant "please explain why looking at the source is only
> > relevant for i18n and not l10n". Henrique has said this far better than
> > I can, though.
>
> That and that the major requirement for understanding the code will be
> in the initial i18n phase where a framework for future l10n is being
> establshed
[...]
This is why i18n is performed by the package developer (or any person
with a good knowledge of package internals and i18n), not translators.
Denis
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