Re: A little abstract to Low German

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le lundi 24 août 2009 à 16:35 +0200, Nils-Christoph Fiedler a écrit :
> Ok, time for a little novel...:
> 
> First of all: thank you very much, Claude, for making me the team
> coordinator for "Low German"! (Makes me kind of proud to receive that
> honour! :-)
> 
> Second: I would recommend to use the expression "Low German" instead
> of "Low Saxon", because "Low German" is, what covers all regions of
> Northern Germany, where this language is spoken and "Low Saxon" just
> referrs to one region (namely Lower Saxony). But for the reason, that
> there are a few more regions like Ostfriesland, Hamburg, Bremen,
> Holstein, etc., it wouild make more sense to name it "Low German".
> (The german expression for this is "Niederdeutsch", which means "Low
> German" and not "Niedersächsisch", which would mean "Low Saxon")
> 
> And I have just a few petitions:
> 1. Could one delete the team
> "nds NFE" (http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/nds NFE) - there are no
> members, nor activity and the language is already covered by "Low
> German" and "Low Saxon" (http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/nds)
> 2. Could one also delete the entry nds NFE from the list here:
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/
> 3. Could one delete the entry "Low Saxon" from here:
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ for benefit of the usage of "Low
> German (nds)" - because "Low German" and "Low Saxon" are both linked
> to the same project-site (http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/nds)
> 4. I could not find out how to rename the viewed group name. I get
> displayed "Low German and Saxon Translation Team" - could anyone
> rename it simply into "Low German Translation Team" please, or tell me
> how to do it myself?

Together with André, we've made some housekeeping in Low German
translation team. It should be cleaner now:

http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/nds

> And a little question:
> When I choose "Low German" in the language list of my ubuntu system
> (after the 2.28 release): Will my translations from the translations
> group be stored here: /usr/share/locale-langpack/nds/LC_MESSAGES ?
> And whats with this
> folder: /usr/share/locale-langpack/nds NFE/LC_MESSAGES ? -> is this
> related to the obsolete project on gnome.org? (I just have the yelp.mo
> file in that local folder)

In future versions of GNOME, there should be only 'nds' left.

Cheers,

Claude