Le mercredi 06 août 2008 à 22:42 +0200, Kenneth Nielsen a écrit : > Hey everybody > > Since we just heard from Vincent that GNOME 2.23.6 is out, that we are > feature frozen and the it therefore is time to start typing the > release notes, I thought that I would bring up an issue I was made > aware of when I was translating the last set of release notes. > > In one of the sections there is a tradition for making an > alphabetically sorted list of all the languages GNOME is supported in, > and this list is translatable. The problem is that when I translated > the language name they don't necessarily have the same first letter as > they have in English, e.g. in Danish, Chinese starts with a K, and > therefore the alphabetical ordering gets all messed up. You can see an > example of this in the Danish version of the release notes from last > time[1]. I know that this is purely cosmetic, but it does not look > very professional. Does anybody have an idea on how to fix this? > > I suppose the best way to fix it would be to use some kind of magical > alphabetically sorted item list function/environemt, in whatever kind > of language the release notes are written in (isn't it some form of > xml), provided of course that such a function exist. The other > alternative, that I can think of, would be to make the entire list (or > itemization) translatable and ask the translators to keep the > translation sorted (and maintain the tags if there are any). But that > is assuming a lot about the soberness of the translator. Does anybody > have any other ideas? > > Regards Kenneth Nielsen > > [1]http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/index.html.da#rni18 > Thanks Kenneth to bring this up. This is a problem we also encounter e.g. when translating glossaries.
I suppose the most proper solution would be to do the sorting of the list (<itemizedlist>) during the xsl transformation. Thats why I'm CCing Shaun who may be tell us if this is something possible. Claude _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
