Re: Review needed for Pango language sample strings

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

Hi,

Catalan is fine too.

Thanks a lot for your hard work ;)

Cheers,

El dt 26 de 08 de 2008 a les 18:12 -0400, en/na Behdad Esfahbod va
escriure:
> 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..."
> 
> 
> That's it.  Thanks in advance,
> 
> behdad
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