Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Em Tue, 13 May 2003 06:57:45 +0200 (CEST), Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
> <fabbione@fabbione.net> escreveu:
>
> > > Now Apache maintainers are telling us that they chose another layout
> > > and we are bound to it.
> >
> > Yes because the official maintainer is responsable for the description of
> > a package. Including the layout and this was told already in the same
> > message above.
>
> This is the same as telling me I should translate 'yellow submarine' to
> 'amarelo submarino', when the right thing in pt_BR is 'submarino amarelo'.
Not at all. None of us did ask them to change sentences or words used for
the translation.
> Why do you bother with the layout of the translation? The translators are
> the authorities when it comes to their languages. I think we should not
> be put in a jail and be unable to decide how we think our users should
> see the message.
>
> Let's make it clear: we translate stuff to make it more readable to
> our fellow compatriots, making the translation look bad to our users
> does not help achieving the goal.
All this other stuff already found several answers in the thread. No need
to reanswer them again and restart from scratch.
Thanks
Fabio
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