Re: Regular use of software translated into "Esperanto"?
Dear friends,
I am esperantist too and I use debian in french and esperanto.
Next year I will have more time to help the translation into esperanto.
Best regards
Mr.Michel Basso
France
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Le mercredi 21 juin 2023 à 08:12 +0000, c.buhtz@posteo.jp a écrit :
> Hello folks,
>
> I know not much about Esperanto, only what I can read at Wikipedia.
>
> I'm member of the upstream maintenance team of "Back In Time" [1][2].
> Currently the project do partly offer Esperanto [3]. Because of
> ressourrces and maintainability I think about removing that language
> from the project. You might helping me understanding some points about
> Esperanto.
>
> I wonder if Esperanto speaking people do use there software that way? I
> know that Debian offers Esperanto. Do you know about how many users this
> are?
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong here. To my knowledge Esperanto is a
> foreign (not mother tongue) language to the most people even the
> Esperanto speakers them self. But some do grew up with Esperanto and it
> is their mother tongue language. But it keeps their secondary mother
> tongue language. They grew up in countries where Esperanto isn't the
> primary language. Is there any country where it is primary language?
>
> Am I right so far?
>
> So I wonder if it make sense to translate the GUI of a software into
> Esperanto.
>
> From a technological point of view: In most cases (except the Esperanto
> Debian users) the system language isn't Esperanto? So Esperanto isn't
> selected by default when installing a software. You have to explicit
> choose that in the settings of a specific software. Right?
>
> Of course from the cultural and political perspective it make sense as a
> "statement". It could be compared to translate software into minority
> (e.g. Native American languages) or "forgotten" languages. But my
> project don't have the resources for "statements".
>
> Hope you can clear up some of that.
>
> Kind
> Christian
>
> [1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime>
> [2] -- <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backintime>
> [3] -- <https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/backintime/common/eo/>
>
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