Re: A chance to help

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 22 Aug 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Fri, Aug 22, 2003, ï 07:43:45AM -0500, Lars Clausen a ïcrit:
> > For those of you who have little or no programming skill (or C
> > knowledge), but want to help improve Dia, look at the bug report
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120466.  As stated, it'd be
> > great to get standardized on American spelling for the benefit of the
> > translators, and there are several other things in the l10n guidelines
> > (linked to from the bug report) that I'm sure we're not following.  Time
> > to wield your +2 Grep of Finding!  Coordinate your attack on the list,
> > or risk duplicate work.
>
> I'd add: for each Americanization patch item, it would be really nice to 
> add an en_GB.po patch item as well. Just for symmetry's sake.

True, but less necessary.  The Americanization is mostly to have one
language to base translations off of.  That way we won't have
mistranslations due to US/GB differences.  Also notice that the site
suggests always using SI units, so for units an en_US.po patch could be
required (not likely to be the case in Dia, though).

-Lars

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