Re: New team for Shavian (e...@shaw)

Ysgrifennodd Claude Paroz: > Please commit at least one translation so as we can link the team to the > language in D-L. Okay, http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/metacity/master/po/e...@shaw and a few others. Best wishes, Thomas -- Thomas Thurman - thomas at thurman.org.uk - http://marnan

Metacity branched for 2.28

Metacity has been branched for 2.28. The new branch is called gnome-2-28. Hacking will continue in the master branch. Best wishes, Thomas -- What if a dragon stole your library books? http://borrowable.net ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.o

New team for Shavian (e...@shaw)

d.net/ubuntu-l10n-en-shaw/ ) to which Bugzilla bugs can be sent. I offer myself, Thomas Thurman, tthur...@gnome.org, as a contact for the GNOME team. Thomas -- Thomas Thurman - thomas at thurman.org.uk - http://marnanel.org What if a dragon stole your library books? http://borrowabl

Re: Request to create a new Language (Hausa Language)

Ysgrifennodd nui...@fossnigeria.org: My name is Nasir Usman Imam, Member BOD Hutsoft Nigeria Ltd. I will like to start a new language by name HAUSA LANGUAGE, a language widely spoken in west Africa in the translation page of the gnome localisation page. I will like to create the team and also co

Re: New team for Mayan languages ISO 639-3

2009/3/2 Paulino Cahun Pat : > Paulino Cahun Pat > > leoncancer@gmail.com > Bugzilla account : leoncancer@gmail.com The ISO 639 code is "myn". http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php T ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gn

Copyright year as %d

I have to change the string "Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Havoc Pennington, Red Hat, Inc., and others\n" because of the new year. Is there any reason I shouldn't change it to "Copyright (C) 2001-%d Havoc Pennington, Red Hat, Inc., and others\n" and supply the year in the code, so I won't be making

Metacity branched for 2.26

I've branched Metacity for 2.26. The 2.26 branch is "branches/gnome-2-26", currently numbered 2.25.*. Hacking will continue on trunk, now numbered 2.27. Thomas ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/

Automated translation into en_GB

Translation from the C locale into en_GB is generally done with Abigail Brady's script written for that purpose, and then hand-checked. The script is very reliable and there are rarely changes needed. However, the whole process is currently done by hand, which means it only happens when someo

Re: Creating a New locale

> U+0331 COMBINING MACRO BELOW: fe̱ed fo̱od > U+0332 COMBINING LOW LINE: fe̲ed fo̲od Receiving my own message back again, Thunderbird had problems with U+0332 and U+0332 also doesn't work in "view source" for the web page, whereas U+0331 works fine for both. So I think U+0331 should be what you w

Re: Creating a New locale

Ysgrifennodd Fanen Ahua: > I think I'll go ahead and create a new locale for this language. The > link you gave me led me to a useful guide for creating my locale. > However, I'm a bit unsure about what character map to use. could you > please advise? We use accented characters, but not too many. ô

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) Licensing

2009/1/17 Christian Rose : > On 1/16/09, Thomas Thurman wrote: >> A month ago, I contacted: >> saudat mohammed >> Sylvester Onye >> Sunday Ayo Fajuyitan >> The first two immediately bounced. The second has not replied. > > I assume you mean the thi

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) Licensing

2009/1/15 Chris Murphy : > As far as I know, there is only the license metadata for the translations-ig > package itself, which is listed as GPL. The person who did the Igbo > translation was Sylvester Onye (sylves...@wazobialinux.com per a string in > the gnome-desktop*.mo file. Hausa was transl

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) Licensing

Ysgrifennodd Roozbeh Pournader: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Thomas Thurman wrote: >> Shall I do the actual merge into svn, then? I'm happy to spend the >> hour or so it might take. > > Please don't upload GPL translations to LGPL packages! Thanks for the

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) Licensing

Ysgrifennodd Luis Villa: > So, I still think it is a good idea to contact the authors just to be > sure (if for no other reason than they may be able to help the > translations live on) but this seems like fairly decent confirmation > that the information is licensed appropriately and can be used.

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) Licensing

Ysgrifennodd Chris Murphy: I mounted the disk image and poked around a bit. There are no .po files in the root filesystem, but there is a documentation folder: /usr/share/doc/wazobia-release-1/ which contains licensing information, including the GPL and a README/eula file that explain the cont

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

Ysgrifennodd Marcel Telka: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:43:51PM -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: Maybe in future we need to make the gettext tools enforce a rule that the header block of a .po file contains licence information, instead of assuming it's okay to leave it in the comments. Th

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

Ysgrifennodd Luis Villa: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Thomas Thurman wrote: Thanks. The ISO seems to have vanished, but there's a 480Mb disk image here, which seems to be where the .mo files came from: http://wazobialinux.com/downloads/wlce.hda.img.21.09.2006 Could someone who

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

Ysgrifennodd Roozbeh Pournader: > License screens don't really matter. The actual license files on the > disc do (or so I believe). So, mounting the ISO and dissecting it may > be sufficient. No need to boot from it. Thanks. The ISO seems to have vanished, but there's a 480Mb disk image here, w

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig) po files

Ysgrifennodd Roozbeh Pournader: > It all boils down to if the actual software itself (Wazobia Linux, and > its parts) was released under an (L)GPL(-compatible) license or not. http://wazobialinux.com/software_philosoph.html and http://wazobialinux.com/software_developer.html claim it was release

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig)

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 "Simos Xenitellis" wrote: > Personally I would opt for an informal first email, just to elicit a > reply before going into details. [...] > If direct contact does not bring a reply, then contacting through > other people that are involved in African languages L10n would be >

Re: What can Git do for translators?

2009/1/7 Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan : > What I care is my language po file. Maybe around 15KB. > > Why should I download the whole bunch of data while the one that I need is > just a small fraction of it. Indeed, why should you? You can get it from Damned Lies, can't you? Thomas __

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig)

2008/12/16 Simos Xenitellis : > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Thurman wrote: >> I'll try emailing one of the contact addresses and see what happens. > Personally I would opt for an informal first email Well, I took the email addresses for the translators of Metacity

Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig)

2008/12/16 Simos Xenitellis : > I think it would be good to get the views of the people behind Wazobia > Linux, so that to give a chance to work upstream with GNOME for the > translations. > Is anyone already in contact, or is this task open? Nobody is in contact-- what I've posted is all anyone h

Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig)

order to merge them upstream? Thomas -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman Did you know... ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n

Re: How to find where the string is from?

ranslate it or correct it?" http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Franchimand%22+file%3A.*.po T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman There is an empty bottle here. ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n

Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

/spectrum.myriadcolours.com/~marnanel/gnome-hat.svg Any more and it would look like the Bass logo. T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman The dragon is implacable. ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n

Re: Translation Team for Latin (la, lat)

le will be committed in SVN, we will > > create the corresponding stat page on l10n.gnome.org. > > I suppose that's a "No" then. http://svn.gnome.org/svn/metacity/trunk/po/la.po Okay, so it's only a 2% translation so far, but it's a start. Thomas -- Tho

Re: Translation Team for Latin (la, lat)

ugh Metacity's .pot and identifying terms we need (but only just started). Thomas -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman You'd probably be better off using your bare hands than that thing! ___ gnome-i18n mailing

Re: Translation Team for Latin (la, lat)

Ysgrifennodd Petr Kovar: > Paul Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:55:58 -0700: > > > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 23:21 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote: > > > I'd quite like to join the team, though I'm already very overcommitted. > > > > I sus

Re: Translation Team for Latin (la, lat)

cipaedia:Taberna#Other_Latin_technology_projects I'd quite like to join the team, though I'm already very overcommitted. Thomas -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman You are at a complex junction. A low hands and knees passage from the north joins a higher

Metacity branched for 2.24

kported to 2.24, but bugfixes will be. Wishing you a happy, um (looks in Wikipedia) Feast of the Glorious Virgin St Radegund, Thomas -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman They seem to depict people and animals. ___

Re: unsupported native african and creole languages?

OME into a given language, or helping with them yourself if you can through translation or another way? T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman Probably a wise choice. ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org

Re: New team for [Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.)] ([peo])

nder whether I should formally attempt to take over the all-but-sinecure "team", such as it is, since I'm around, and after all I did get an A at Latin GCSE. :) T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman You are in a large room, with a passage to the

Re: Translating "yes" and "no" as answers to specific questions

27;ll take the discussion there, then. Thanks. peace T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman The geyser of blistering steam erupts continuously from a barren island in the center of a sulfurous lake, which bubbles ominously. _

Re: Translating "yes" and "no" as answers to specific questions

g the generic yes and no for everything, so in that case the status quo is the place to stay. peace T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman They're probably worth a fortune! ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18

Re: Translating "yes" and "no" as answers to specific questions

nslation of "yes" and "no" should be for that particular question. The reason I gave the examples I did was that to all application programmers, and to most translators, they won't look any different from what we have now. peace T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, htt

Re: Translating "yes" and "no" as answers to specific questions

dialogue buttons just for the sake of Welsh and Irish users; indeed, that would make GTK_BUTTONS_YES_NO rather pointless. peace T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman They're just ordinary boulders. ___ gno

Translating "yes" and "no" as answers to specific questions

else: msgid "Do you already have an account set up on a server?" msgstr "" "A oes cyfrif ar weinydd Jabber gennych eisoes?%(Oes)yb%(Nac oes)nb" The second is my preferred option out of the two. It doesn't look hard to implement, either. Thoughts? Would this be

Workspace numbers

is a very nice workspace" (see bug 453678 for details, not that they're important). I thought I could treat this as a special case of "Workspace 10", but now I'm thinking that's just silly and there's no way that's ever going to be translatable in the g

msgfmt commit hook (was Re: Plural forms in translations)

t do people think? T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman The bear is confused; he only wants to be your friend. ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n

metacity branched for 2.22

Metacity has been branched for 2.22. The new branch name is gnome-2-22. Development will continue in trunk. Thanks to all of you for the work you do. T ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n

Urdu using both "urd" and "ur"

Hi. I've raised this in Bugzilla but I was asked on IRC to email you as well. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514348 Urdu has both an ISO 639-2 and an ISO 639-3 code ("ur" and "urd" respectively). The only three gettext files we have in Urdu are called ur.po. damned-lies, however, calls

Re: gettrans script

On 12/12/2007, Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems it's broken now, as it screenscrapes damned lies. Could you fix > it? When you've fixed it, I'd like to include it in gnome-i18n SVN, as > it could be helpful to other locales as well. Alternatively, I wonder whether the redesign

Re: gettrans script

On 12/12/2007, Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems it's broken now, as it screenscrapes damned lies. Could you fix > it? When you've fixed it, I'd like to include it in gnome-i18n SVN, as > it could be helpful to other locales as well. > > Alternatively, if somebody has Python-fu t

i18n blog?

I've found it useful in the last few weeks to have a project blog for Metacity (). I wonder whether it would be useful for the i18n effort as a whole to have a shared project blog where people could post about the challenges different people have to face and what t

Re: Would it save time for translators to fold similar lines?

On 03/12/2007, Jorge González <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know metacity that well, but I can give you another example: > many times we don't have any idea what are the variables, and in other > languages rather than English, words can be male, female, neutral and > perhaps even more, so de

Re: Would it save time for translators to fold similar lines?

On 03/12/2007, Jorge González <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That really depends, in Spanish we won't translate it if its an HTML > tag, but if its not something standard as a programming language or > any other, we will, from metacity: > > #: ../src/theme.c:208 > msgid "bottom" > msgstr "inferior"

Re: Would it save time for translators to fold similar lines?

On 02/12/2007, Robert-André Mauchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think this is a good idea. Actually we do translate the \"top\" > and other attributes to give informations about it. For example in > french translation : > > #: ../src/theme-parser.c:1540 > #, c-format >

Re: Would it save time for translators to fold similar lines?

Just briefly (since it's almost dinnertime here): On 02/12/2007, Djihed Afifi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > في ح، 02-12-2007 عند 15:11 -0500 ، كتب Thomas Thurman: > > > So: > > > > 1) It would have saved trouble had the system been designed like this > &

Re: Would it save time for translators to fold similar lines?

On 02/12/2007, helix84 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the general case, this would work for Slovak. But be sure to give > context id to the variable values (i.e. "htmlattr|top", > "htmlattr|bottom"). In our case, this is because the word used in a > specific place in one sentence (context) _may_ h

Would it save time for translators to fold similar lines?

I note that, for example, in metacity we have lines like this: #: ../src/theme-parser.c:1540 #, c-format msgid "No \"top\" attribute on element <%s>" msgstr "" #: ../src/theme-parser.c:1547 #, c-format msgid "No \"bottom\" attribute on element <%s>" msgstr "" #: ../src/theme-parser.c:1554 #, c-f

Re: Joining the en_GB team

On 18/09/2007, Bruce Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Didn't receive a reply, so forwarding it here. > Forwarded Message > > From: Bruce Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Joining the en_GB team > > Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:17:07 +0100 > > > > I ha

Re: Verbs form in UI actions

On 18/12/06, Wouter Bolsterlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was explicitly referring to Dutch here. Imperative style is just not friendly in Dutch, and it sounds a bit strange as well (all Dutch software uses infinitives instead of imperatives). I think it must vary a lot by language. Someone

Re: Verbs form in UI actions

On 18/12/06, Dale Gulledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/18/06, Wouter Bolsterlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2006-12-17 klockan 17:31 skrev Youssef Chahibi: > >In what form (Infinitive, Noun, Imperative) are UI actions > > like "Open", "Close", "Show" ... translated in your language?

Re: How to translate new string in gnome-applets

On 23/08/06, Daniel Nylander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,How should I translate the new string"Tomboy (ne Stickynotes)"in gnome-applets?"ne" is what? Not equal? Traditionally, in the UK and US, women have taken their husband's name on marriage. When you want to tell people a woman's name and

Re: a comic reliefe

Yair Hershkovitz wrote: > msgid "To be valid, the user name should have less than %d character" > msgid_plural "To be valid, the user name should have less than %d > characters" It ought to be "fewer", anyway. peace Thomas ___ gnome-i18n mailing list

Untranslated string in metacity now marked for translation (bug 334332)

Hi. One of the strings in metacity accidentally didn't get marked for translation. It has now been marked for translation in both gnome-2-14 and HEAD. The string was "%s (on %s)". Further details are at . peace Thomas __