Dan (and everybody interested in translating these), Just to bring to your attention that the Unicode CLDR standard provides localization patterns and best practices for user-friendly timezone names in user interfaces:
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Timezone_Names The standardized data itself is available here: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/repository_access.html I don't really know what is the best way to use the localized data now (localizers could take a look, but I think we should at least use the US English names provided in Unicode CLDR for the original English ones. The license is (L)GPL compatible. Disclaimer: Gnome Foundation is a member of the Unicode Consortium, and Behdad and I are our representatives there ;-) This also means that you find a fault with the (localized/original) data or the specification that you wish to be corrected, pass me and Behdad a note, we will contact the people in charge to correct them. I can also create accounts for GNOME localizers interested in correcting Unicode CLDR data for the next releases, which is going to be used in more and more software, both proprietary and free (including GNOME, if we find the time). Roozbeh On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Dan Winship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part two (of two) of libgweather string churn. I've just committed the > patches to give us localized timezone names rather than using the > "America/New_York"-style strings. Most countries now will just end up > using the country name as the timezone name, meaning they're already > translated. Most of the remaining strings are either very simple > ("Eastern Time") or else reuse the names of already-translated locations > ("Moscow Time", "Western Kazakhstan") and so shouldn't be too hard to > translate. > > -- Dan > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
