I just noticed that DL has this bug also :) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547207
Cheers, El dc 06 de 08 de 2008 a les 23:44 +0200, en/na Claude Paroz va escriure: > 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 -- gil forcada [ca] guifi.net - una xarxa lliure que no para de créixer [en] guifi.net - a non-stopping free network bloc: http://gil.badall.net _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
