Re: Review needed for Pango language sample strings

["Leonardo F. Fontenelle" <leonardof gnome org>]

Em Ter, 2008-08-26 às 18:33 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod escreveu:
> > If the string lenght is OK I can open a bug report with a patch.
> 
> Patch would be nice, yeah.  I can do the patches myself though if one opens a
> bug and leaves me the phrase and English translation.
> 
> So yeah, even if not sure, please open the bug.  That makes it easier for me
> to track them all and not lose anyone's suggestion.
> 

Done: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549522

> > Em Ter, 2008-08-26 às 18:12 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod escreveu:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Pango keeps a single string (sentence) per language that it uses internally
> >> and also exposes for other applications to use (in a font dialog for example).
> >>  Previously the sample text were quite limited (about 20 language supported),
> >> and bogus.  I have not extended the list to about a hundred tables.  I used
> >> various sample-string, pangram, and other resources freely available.  These
> >> can be found here:
> >>
> >> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/pango/trunk/pango/pango-language-sample-table.h?view=markup
> >>
> >> I'm now asking translation teams to review the sentence for their language
> >> now.  Please file a bug against pango at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ if you
> >> think a sample string needs to be changed.  A good sample string would be:
> >>
> >>   - Politically correct
> >>
> >>   - Representative of normal text in the language (so, no alphabetical lists)
> >>
> >>   - Exposes features unique to the language (European sample strings would use
> >> diacritics used in the target language for example)
> >>
> >>   - Not too short, not too long
> >>
> >>   - Not copied from what Windows uses (unless it's a very widespread thing
> >> like "The quick brown fox..."
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