Vuos, golggotmánu 30. b. 2006 07.32, Christian Perrier čálii: > Quoting Svein Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Please keep the Saami language! > > The Saami languages have been oppressed for many years in all the four > > countries where they are spoken, and much of this oppression still > > remains. In age of computers there has been a long and hard struggle to > > make it possible to use the language in different computer programs and > > systems, not to mention to get programs with menues in Saami language. > > Especially has Microsoft been negative and it has been a great > > encouragement to see that Linux has made it possible to get programs in > > Sami language. I have followed the work for translations from the > > beginning, and I know that there is done a lot of good work. But > > unfortunately computer programs change so fast, that it is impossible for > > a small language to keep updated all the time. It would be very pityful > > if all the good work should get lost at once there is a new release for > > which we don't manage to update the Saami version. The Northern Saami > > language is spoken in Norway, Sweden and Finland. In the two first > > countries all or almost all Northern Saami speaking computer users also > > will understand Norwegian as fallback, but not in Finland. The > > alternative would be English as fallback, which may be also would be > > easier as the translations to Northern Saami are done from English. > > Anyhow, A Saami version with parts of menues in Norwegian or English is > > much better than nothing. And so I hope that we soon will be able to > > organize more translations. > > Based on the various arguments for it, the Northern Sami entry has > been re-added yesterday to the localechooser package. > > As the se translations have been removed from D-I packages when > de-activating the language, D-I will unfortunately not be translated > in Northern Sami. People will just have the choice of the > language...then the install will run in Norwegian Bokmål. At this > moment of the release of D-I, it is not possible to re-inject the > translations. > > What I plan is reactivating them for the next (and probably final) > release of D-I, because there is a very good fallback with Norwegian > (OK, not perfect as you have explained). > > What I would suggest to Sami translators is to focus on the strings, > on the master PO file, that belong to the packages I list at the end > of this mail. For Sami, that means fixing about 200 strings "only". Of > course, getting the whole se.po file completed would even be > better. The stats are currently: > > 935 translated messages, 25 fuzzy translations, 573 untranslated messages > > > # General d-i stuff > main-menu > debian-installer-utils > anna > > # First half of 1st stage > localechooser > kbd-chooser > cdrom-detect > hw-detect > netcfg > choose-mirror > net-retriever > cdrom-retriever > floppy-retriever > mountfloppy > > # Generic and i386 partman > partman/partman-base > partman/partman-auto > partman/partman-basicmethods > partman/partman-partitioning > partman/partman-basicfilesystems > partman/partman-ext3 > partman/partman-reiserfs > partman/partman-jfs > partman/partman-xfs > partman/partman-ext2r0 > partman/partman-target > > # Second half of 1st stage > tzsetup > clock-setup > base-installer > apt-setup > user-setup > cdebconf > pkgsel > finish-install > nobootloader > > # i386 bootloader > arch/i386/grub-installer I'll have a go at this. I'll ask for help on the i18n-sme list when I hit troublesome sentences.
-- Børre Gaup
