Re: Alphabetical ordering of supported languages in release notes gets messed up when localized

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

I just noticed that DL has this bug also :)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547207

Cheers,

El dc 06 de 08 de 2008 a les 23:44 +0200, en/na Claude Paroz va
escriure:
> Le mercredi 06 août 2008 à 22:42 +0200, Kenneth Nielsen a écrit :
> > Hey everybody
> > 
> > Since we just heard from Vincent that GNOME 2.23.6 is out, that we are
> > feature frozen and the it therefore is time to start typing the
> > release notes, I thought that I would bring up an issue I was made
> > aware of when I was translating the last set of release notes.
> > 
> > In one of the sections there is a tradition for making an
> > alphabetically sorted list of all the languages GNOME is supported in,
> > and this list is translatable. The problem is that when I translated
> > the language name they don't necessarily have the same first letter as
> > they have in English, e.g. in Danish, Chinese starts with a K, and
> > therefore the alphabetical ordering gets all messed up. You can see an
> > example of this in the Danish version of the release notes from last
> > time[1]. I know that this is purely cosmetic, but it does not look
> > very professional. Does anybody have an idea on how to fix this?
> > 
> > I suppose the best way to fix it would be to use some kind of magical
> > alphabetically sorted item list function/environemt, in whatever kind
> > of language the release notes are written in (isn't it some form of
> > xml), provided of course that such a function exist. The other
> > alternative, that I can think of, would be to make the entire list (or
> > itemization) translatable and ask the translators to keep the
> > translation sorted (and maintain the tags if there are any). But that
> > is assuming a lot about the soberness of the translator. Does anybody
> > have any other ideas?
> > 
> > Regards Kenneth Nielsen
> > 
> > [1]http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/index.html.da#rni18
> > 
> Thanks Kenneth to bring this up. This is a problem we also encounter
> e.g. when translating glossaries.
> 
> I suppose the most proper solution would be to do the sorting of the
> list (<itemizedlist>) during the xsl transformation. Thats why I'm CCing
> Shaun who may be tell us if this is something possible.
> 
> Claude
> 
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