Comments on: Ubuntu In Your Language http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/30/ubuntu-in-your-language/ At home with Jono Bacon, Community Manager and Author Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: datz http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/30/ubuntu-in-your-language/comment-page-1/#comment-170034 datz Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:08:00 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1932#comment-170034 <p>The language is Macedonian. The population is Macedonian. The name is Macedonia. FYRM is a time reference according time agreement. Just a reference, and not a name. Reference for join in international organisations as UN, OSSCE , EU ...etc But the name is Macedonia and language is Macedonian.</p> The language is Macedonian. The population is Macedonian. The name is Macedonia. FYRM is a time reference according time agreement. Just a reference, and not a name. Reference for join in international organisations as UN, OSSCE , EU …etc But the name is Macedonia and language is Macedonian.

]]> By: camou http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/30/ubuntu-in-your-language/comment-page-1/#comment-132427 camou Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:10:20 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1932#comment-132427 <p>Macedonian??? wtf!</p> <p>The real name is Fyrom!</p> Macedonian??? wtf!

The real name is Fyrom!

]]> By: forteller http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/30/ubuntu-in-your-language/comment-page-1/#comment-132418 forteller Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:00:15 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1932#comment-132418 <p>These numbers are quite bad, but I have some ideas why, and I don't like it at all:</p> <ol> <li><p>First off: I hear that Ubuntu doesn't use the official translations from upstream, and don't contribute back upstream. If this is true, it is utterly ridiculous!</p></li> <li><p>It's way too hard to get started translating. It should be dead easy for any newbee to start helping out in this way. Translating is kindof the easiest way to help out if you can't code or anything like that. But in Ubuntu it's not, because it's so hard to get started. You didn't even tell us in this post how to get started, just linked to a wiki with a lot of text, that no newbee will care to read trough! I don't have a solution, but you need to find one!</p></li> </ol> <p>3: There should be an easy way to list the apps that needs translating by how much they're used by normal users. Translating things that are only used by hardcore geeks is much less important than translating the most used GUI stuff used by parents and grandparents.</p> These numbers are quite bad, but I have some ideas why, and I don’t like it at all:

  1. First off: I hear that Ubuntu doesn’t use the official translations from upstream, and don’t contribute back upstream. If this is true, it is utterly ridiculous!

  2. It’s way too hard to get started translating. It should be dead easy for any newbee to start helping out in this way. Translating is kindof the easiest way to help out if you can’t code or anything like that. But in Ubuntu it’s not, because it’s so hard to get started. You didn’t even tell us in this post how to get started, just linked to a wiki with a lot of text, that no newbee will care to read trough! I don’t have a solution, but you need to find one!

3: There should be an easy way to list the apps that needs translating by how much they’re used by normal users. Translating things that are only used by hardcore geeks is much less important than translating the most used GUI stuff used by parents and grandparents.

]]> By: James D http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/30/ubuntu-in-your-language/comment-page-1/#comment-132403 James D Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:13:46 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1932#comment-132403 <p>The glaring gap in Ubuntu/GNOME language coverage is en-gb-oed (i.e. correct British English according to the dictionary, rather than according to tabloid newspapers and paperback books). I bet a script could generate that one from the en-gb-ise and en-us files. It's shocking to think that Bokmal Norwegian is ahead of its English equivalent.</p> The glaring gap in Ubuntu/GNOME language coverage is en-gb-oed (i.e. correct British English according to the dictionary, rather than according to tabloid newspapers and paperback books). I bet a script could generate that one from the en-gb-ise and en-us files. It’s shocking to think that Bokmal Norwegian is ahead of its English equivalent.

]]> By: Ubuntu In Your Language | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/30/ubuntu-in-your-language/comment-page-1/#comment-132401 Ubuntu In Your Language | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:52:02 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1932#comment-132401 <p>[...] One of the most wonderful, and oftern underrated parts of the Ubuntu community are our tremendous translators. It is these awesome individuals that re-enforce the ethos that everyone should be able to enjoy Ubuntu in the locale and language that is comfortable to them. More here [...]</p> [...] One of the most wonderful, and oftern underrated parts of the Ubuntu community are our tremendous translators. It is these awesome individuals that re-enforce the ethos that everyone should be able to enjoy Ubuntu in the locale and language that is comfortable to them. More here [...]

]]> By: davee http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/30/ubuntu-in-your-language/comment-page-1/#comment-132365 davee Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:23:37 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1932#comment-132365 <p>Esperanto, that's fantastic. :-)</p> Esperanto, that’s fantastic. :-)

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