Le dimanche 01 juin 2008 à 00:21 +0300, Eyal Levin a écrit : > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Claude Paroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Le samedi 31 mai 2008 à 20:48 +0300, Eyal Levin a écrit : > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Christian Robottom Reis > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:52:31PM +0300, Eyal Levin > wrote: > > > Well, the problem is that we (Hebrew Translators) > have > > Hebrew strings in the > > > terminal, but we have decided that the contents of > the > > terminal should > > > remain in English since Hebrew does not display > well there. > > > > > > Why doesn't it display well there? Isn't that more a > bug of > > the terminal > > and/or font than in the translations? > > > > We have some BiDi problems, but as you said this is a bug > and can be > > fixed. (Working fine though in mlterm [1] ). > > > > We decided to stay with English because there is no Hebrew > > documentation regarding the terminal, hence users who will > try to look > > for help in forums, Google, etc, won't find anything. > > We also got some input from users who said that Hebrew in > the terminal > > is the main reason why they don't use the Hebrew locale as a > whole. > > > > This choice should be left to users. Those who prefer English > messages > in Terminal can always set this by inserting the following in > their .bashrc file: "export LANG=en_US" or "export LANG=C" > > We discussed that also and came to the conclusion that this is an > action that new users will probably not take or won't be aware of, and > as a result turn to the English locale.
Agreed, but new users should probably not be the most terminal-intensive users either. > > Perhaps if you know a way we could set the Terminal default language > to English in the Hebrew locale (with a new Ubuntu installation), this > would probably be a better solution. Then, if someone would like > Hebrew in the Terminal he could do the switch. I can't say anything about default parameters, but you can always promote recipes on Hebrew Wikis/Forums/FAQs. > > It was also stated that currently we have more appealing applications > to tunnel our translation energy towards. > Of course, GUI applications should have the priority for translations, but in the long term, I think all languages deserve having even command line messages in their language/script. Those who need a particular message in English may try to re-launch the process with something like "$ LANG=C mycommand" Take this as my humble opinion, nothing more :-) > Claude -- ubuntu-translators mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
