Re: About pt_BR and pt_PT translations
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On 10/25/2005 08:29 PM, Marco Ferra wrote:
> Dear translators
[...]
> Portuguese is *one* language. In different parts of Portugal we
> have different people with different accent speaking Portuguese.
> I'm sure the same thing happens in Brazil and in other Portuguese
> speaking countries. There are different used words and different
> used meanings. But it's Portuguese. And I think that we should
> co-exist peacefully.
There is *no* doubt that Portuguese is *one* language, and
Christian states it clear, there is no different code in ISO 639
for Brazilian Portuguese. Indeed we have cultural differences
inside of Brasil, but there are a lot of differences in the computer
area for pt and pt_BR.
We co-existe peacefully, we are not fighting, the whole point
is try to give the best for our final users, in other words, give to
them the chance to choose, a lot of areas of Debian already do that,
what I'm trying to propose is that we decide to use it Debian-wide. :)
> About the use of this mailing list in particular, I don't use it,
> and the translators in Portugal probably don't use it either. (I
> maintain a page of statistics about the translation process in PT
> so I have a clue). We don't care. If translators in Brazil want
> to cooperate, thats fine, but if they don't, thats fine too. This
> happens vice-versa I think.
We would like to cooperate. Checking the maillist archives,
there are some ideas to write scripts to do some automatic changes
from pt to pt_BR and vice-versa to reduce the "double work".
> I'm opened to suggestions about this. Do translators in Brazil are
> organised?
Yes we are. Now we are in the process of putting QA in place,
following pseudo-urls system from other l10n teams.
> Do you want us to help each other?
I believe that we should do that, even if one of the languages
is more translated than the other, we could just copy the archive and
work on the modficiations/revisions, bugs and patches could "travel"
in both side and in both directions. =)
> Why does this topic keeps poping around every now and then?
I'm not sure, I raised the topic because we gotta a small
confusion with the D-I Manual build report, and after that with
the adduser manpage translation.
> Debian has resources to help translators work together and thank
> you indeed. More heads think better than one. But we have
> resources too.
For sure, but I believe that we should follow the line of
what Miguel Figueiredo [1]proposed on his message in this thread.
[1]http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2005/10/msg00086.html
> Sincere regards to all translators (in every language) and thanks
> for the wonderful job and time spent.
> I think this message while arrive off the thread. For that I'm
> sorry.
> Marco
> PS: Oh... and the link: http://pdeb.berlios.de/
Thanks to take part on this discussion. =) At least we
could generate historic contents to serve as reference.
Kind regards,
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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
"Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!"
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