Weekly i18n status update

[Danilo Segan <dsegan gmx net>]

Hi everyone!

This is my attempt to provide you with a weekly status update for the 
core Gnome 2.4 modules, along with the changes done in the last week 
(that means all the days from 2003-08-18 till 2003-08-24, inclusive).

So, here it goes:

23 supported languages (over 80% strings translated):

      cs        Czech                               100.00%  (+  0.01%)
      pt        Portuguese                          100.00%       
sr        Serbian                             100.00%       sr Latn   
Serbian Latin                       100.00%       sv        
Swedish                             100.00%       es        
Spanish                              99.95%  (-  0.01%)
      de        German                               99.93%       
pl        Polish                               97.52%  (+  1.71%)
      ko        Korean                               93.14%  (+  2.23%)
      nl        Dutch                                92.89%  (+  0.39%)
      cy        Welsh                                92.53%  (+  8.03%)
      fr        French                               91.60%  (+  4.12%)
      zh_CN     Chinese Simplified                   91.22%  (+  2.99%)
      da        Danish                               88.62%  (+  2.89%)
      el        Greek                                88.24%  (+  0.66%)
      no        Norwegian                            86.46%  (+ 15.52%)
      zh_TW     Chinese Traditional                  85.70%  (+  4.13%)
      ms        Malay                                85.54%  (-  0.03%)
      pt_BR     Brazilian Portuguese                 85.48%  (+  1.68%)
      az        Azerbaijani                          84.83%  (+  9.82%)
      be        Belarusian                           84.40%  (+  0.81%)
      ja        Japanese                             83.32%  (+  2.62%)
      ca        Catalan                              82.61%  (+  1.60%)


16 partially supported (over 50%, less than 80%):

      fi        Finnish                              78.37%  (+  1.59%)
      it        Italian                              76.52%  (-  0.04%)
      ru        Russian                              74.95%  (+  0.67%)
      mk        Macedonian                           72.41%  (-  0.04%)
      he        Hebrew                               71.56%  (-  0.04%)
      sl        Slovenian                            70.41%  (+ 10.14%)
      vi        Vietnamese                           68.98%  (-  0.05%)
      uk        Ukrainian                            65.69%  (-  0.05%)
      lv        Latvian                              63.25%  (-  0.06%)
      mn        Mongolian                            62.74%  (+  2.61%)
      sk        Slovak                               62.33%  (+  0.28%)
      tr        Turkish                              61.35%  (+  1.26%)
      bg        Bulgarian                            61.26%  (+  0.74%)
      hu        Hungarian                            58.44%  (-  0.07%)
      ro        Romanian                             53.75%  (-  0.07%)
      id        Indonesian                           51.97%  (+  0.07%)


35 unsupported languages (less than 50%):

      hi        Hindi                                46.67%  (+  5.74%)
      et        Estonian                             42.40%  (+  2.07%)
      sq        Albanian                             38.80%  (+  0.05%)
      ml        Malayalam                            37.82%  (+  1.86%)
      ar        Arabic                               37.77%  (+  0.05%)
      is        Icelandic                            37.51%  (+ 13.15%)
      bn        Bengali                              33.80%  (+  0.05%)
      wa        Wallon                               33.24%  (-  0.01%)
      li        Limburgish                           31.11%  (+  0.04%)
      am        Amharic                              28.09%  (-  0.04%)
      gl        Galician                             27.77%  (+  0.04%)
      lt        Lithuanian                           24.86%  (-  0.09%)
      fa        Persian                              21.39%  (+  0.03%)
      ga        Irish Gaelic                         20.62%  (+  4.56%)
      ta        Tamil                                20.47%  (+  0.01%)
      th        Thai                                 18.00%  (+  0.38%)
      eu        Basque                               17.74%  (+  0.02%)
      nn        Norwegian Nynorsk                    16.85%  (+  0.03%)
      en_GB     British English                      14.12%  (+  0.02%)
      yi        Yiddish                              11.02%  (+  0.01%)
      eo        Esperanto                             9.62%  (+  0.02%)
      ne        Nepali                                8.96%  (+  0.12%)
      kn        Kannada                               5.03%  (-  0.02%)
      bs        Bosnian                               1.41%       
hr        Croatian                              0.34%       ia        
Interlingua                           0.23%
      es_ES     Spanish from Spain                    0.01%       
en_AU     Australian English                    0.00%       en_CA     
Canadian English                      0.00%       gd        Scots 
Gaelic                          0.00%       
gj                                              0.00%       gv        
Manx Gaelic                           0.00%       kw        
Cornish                               0.00%       mr        
Marathi                               0.00%       te        
Telugu                                0.00% 

Average change in this period: +1.408%


In a short summary, there have been a lot of things going on since last 
week, and I'll just mention a couple of newly supported languages 
(Norwegian, up 15%; Azerbaijani, up 10%), but there's been a lot of 
work going on in Welsh team (up 8%), Slovenian (up 10%), and Icelandic 
(up 13%). Of course, there's no intention to undermine anybody's effort 
;-)

You'll probably notice that these statistics look much brighter than 
the previous ones, so lets hope the things will keep going this way.


Kudos to all the translators who made this happen.

(If you ask me, I'd press on all the 70%+ translation teams to make it 
to the "supported" category in the next week, or at least Finnish, 
Italian and Russian which are 74% or more ;-).

Cheers,
Danilo