Hi. If you are a german native speaker, I'd like to catch your attention for a while and point you at the ability of BRLTTY to have localized messages. If you have not noticed so far, yes, thats possible. All you need to do if you are using a recent (4.3) distribution package is to have your locale set to German during the invocation of BRLTTY. If you are installing BRLTTY from source, I believe you need to manually call make install in the Messages/ subdirectory, but I am not quite sure right now.
Provided the fact that you got it working such that BRLTTY uses german messages, I'd like you to pay special attention to the actual messages you see. For instance, the preference menu and help screens should be (mostly) all translated. I am just a bit unsure about a few of the choices I've made when translating to german. As usual, technical english is very suitable for the actual task at hand, while expressing the same thing in German can easily get too long or sort of clumsy. Also, I have to admit that I do not have very much experience with translating things to german. All in all, what I am trying to say is that I am sure there is quite some potential for improvement of these translations, and I'd be happy to read your constructive feedback on how to make them better. If you find a particular wording hard to understand, let me know. Even better, think how you would do it better and let me know! :-) If you see any other type of problem related to messages (such as text that is apparently not translated), please do also let me/us know about it. If you are inclined, you can also look at the file Messages/de.po which contains the collection of all translated strings. This makes it easy to review the particular translations for a particular language as a whole. There are editors specially designed to make it easy and error-proof to edit .po files. There is a po-ömode for Emacs for instance. In any case, please review the german translations and let us know if you find things which sould be improved. -- Internationalised greetings, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
