On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:54:50AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> This is indeed easy to detect on the general translation statistics
> pages for debconf translation, for instance the "ranking" page.
Yeah, the problem is they are ranked so down I never get to see them ;)
> Program translations ("upstream" translations) have more of these
> problems.
> This should be reported also, but requires maintainers to handle this
> with upstream.
Yes, and I do on ocassions.
> In the case of Catalan, this is not a huge deal as the only valid
> locale, IIRC, is ca_ES. But, of course, for "multi-country" languages,
> that is languages with several different locales, such as Spanish,
> having things like es_ES.po without es.po is really A Bad Thing. Even
> if there are some variants (Argentinian people explained me some "hot"
> topics between South American and Spain variants of spanishes), I
> guess everyone prefers having these rather than English.
OTOH, I think the South American GNOME community is quite happy with the
Spanish translation team and doesn't push for diferent locales. I know
there's been problems with the Spanish TP team in the past (an
Argentinian team was created, luckily nothing came out of it), and for
some time there were Up to 3 different Mozilla translations to Spanish.
It seems things look better lately. In Spanish at least, its not
difficult to come up with translations that are satisfactory in both
America and Europe.
Jordi
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