Dear friends, I am esperantist too and I use debian in french and esperanto. Next year I will have more time to help the translation into esperanto.
Best regards Mr.Michel Basso France -- Le mercredi 21 juin 2023 à 08:12 +0000, c.bu...@posteo.jp a écrit : > Hello folks, > > I know not much about Esperanto, only what I can read at Wikipedia. > > I'm member of the upstream maintenance team of "Back In Time" [1][2]. > Currently the project do partly offer Esperanto [3]. Because of > ressourrces and maintainability I think about removing that language > from the project. You might helping me understanding some points about > Esperanto. > > I wonder if Esperanto speaking people do use there software that way? I > know that Debian offers Esperanto. Do you know about how many users this > are? > > Please correct me if I'm wrong here. To my knowledge Esperanto is a > foreign (not mother tongue) language to the most people even the > Esperanto speakers them self. But some do grew up with Esperanto and it > is their mother tongue language. But it keeps their secondary mother > tongue language. They grew up in countries where Esperanto isn't the > primary language. Is there any country where it is primary language? > > Am I right so far? > > So I wonder if it make sense to translate the GUI of a software into > Esperanto. > > From a technological point of view: In most cases (except the Esperanto > Debian users) the system language isn't Esperanto? So Esperanto isn't > selected by default when installing a software. You have to explicit > choose that in the settings of a specific software. Right? > > Of course from the cultural and political perspective it make sense as a > "statement". It could be compared to translate software into minority > (e.g. Native American languages) or "forgotten" languages. But my > project don't have the resources for "statements". > > Hope you can clear up some of that. > > Kind > Christian > > [1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime> > [2] -- <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backintime> > [3] -- <https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/backintime/common/eo/> >
