On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >Yes. Most major free software packages already do this.
>
> Yeah, but from what I've seen none of them do it at all well. (Granted this
> is coming from someone barely functional in anything other than English...)
This is a very predictable plug coming from me, but have you looked at GNOME
recently? I've currently got my GNOME desktop running in Greek and pretty much
*everything* is translated, both in the desktop environment, in the
applications, and the libc stuff on the command line.
> Hopefully we can yank in folks whose native language isn't English for
> this. (I'd be thrilled if we can muster folks that speak non-european
> languages well. One of the Asian languages and one of the Semetic
> languages'd be keen)
Paging Mr. Maeda. I know you're lurking out there.
--
Grr... don't get me started on Wagner. The man couldn't resolve a
dominant seventh to a tonic with two musical dictionaries open to the
word "resolution", and a copy of anything by Muddy Waters.
- Eric the Read, in the monastery.
