I use the esperanto interface on firefox. But not on libreoffice, since
it would need the aditional installation of 50 packages - too much, I
think.
Actually esperanto could be (have been) the lingua franca on internet,
but it has not been able to assert itself. A pity. Still, I am very glad
that there is a wikipedia edition in esperanto and some interfaces as well.
Salutojn!
Raúl
On 21.06.23 12:20, Simeone Dominique wrote:
Dear friends,
I am esperantist and use debian in esperanto. In France, the linŭx
helpers don't know what esperanto is. I hope that the comunity will
continue the work to translate and permit working in esperanto. I am
in link in the world with this langage as well english.
Best linŭxien wishes.
Mr.Dominique Simeone
Le mercredi 21 juin 2023 à 12:11:51 UTC+2, Joop Kiefte
<iko...@gmail.com> a écrit :
You would be wrong here. Esperanto is actively used every day, and a
good amount of people use their system in Esperanto, too. You can see
this because everything that permits community translation generally
has people at some point starting a translation. TEJO, a youth NGO
working on EU and UN level, has an office using Linŭ computers in
Esperanto and software in Esperanto enables the usage of these
computers by all people in the office. There are other organizations
too. Also, by having an Esperanto version you often enable other
minority language versions where people have difficulties learning
English. This is exactly what happened with the Ipernity project,
where the Czech and Chinese version were done using the Esperanto
version as a pivot language. There are also about 200 - 2000 people
who have Esperanto as one of their native languages. Also you have to
realize that Esperanto is both easier to learn and easier to get
translated than many local languages, so it does provide access even
to people outside of the community.
It's hard to give an accurate number of users of software in
Esperanto. I do know that many projects have teams of over 10 people
translating, so the people using the translation is probably a good
amount higher than that.
You are right that people often have to actively select the Esperanto
version, and whenever possible I always do. It's not a statement, it's
a way to get the people you need to be accessible in big non-English
markets to care about your project and often help you out even for
free for those languages too.
On June 21, 2023 at 8:12 GMT, c buhtz <c.bu...@posteo.jp
<mailto:c.bu...@posteo.jp>> wrote:
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/>
