Re: en_GB translations
On 4/22/05, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> (maybe keep -i18n and -l10n-english CC'ed)
>
> One easy way to do it is just copying all msgids to msgstr and then
> make corrections for British spelling. This will lead to a full
> British "translation"...the price to pay is cluttering up the packages
> with a bit more stuff, indeed one more language.....which may be a
> problem for packages which lead to size constraints (the initrd stuff,
> mostly). The extra stuff will be useless most of the time, except in
> few occasions.
There exists a perl script in GNOME cvs that automatically fills msgstr
from msgid, making British spelling correction when necessary, and
ask users when ambiguity arises. The only downside is it fails to
handle msgid_plural, otherwise it works great. If you need it, I can
attach the script to debian-i18n.
Abel
>
> The hard way is a partial en_GB.po filebut you must then take care to
> "translate" complete templates to have it working.
>
> What I fear here is creating what we call in French a "précédent" (I
> don't have the English tsl...hope you get the point) and then have
> nl_NL "translations" when Dutch people do not agree with the belgian
> influence in the Dutch team.....or es_AR translations for Latin
> American way to talk (I talked about that with Margarita...the Spanish
> team seems to have agreed on a common ground, though), and so on....
>
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