Re: New Language

[Ihar Hrachyshka <ihar hrachyshka gmail com>]

2009/2/3 Wouter Bolsterlee <wbolster gnome org>:
> 2009-02-03 klockan 09:32 skrev Wouter Bolsterlee:
>> Thanks for your message.
>> 2009-02-03 klockan 07:19 skrev James Johnson:
>> > I'm new here, but I'd like to let you know about a new language I saw:
>> > [1]http://niwenglisc.wikia.com/wiki/Hefdtramt - It's an Old English/German
>> > hybrid, and I think it'd make a good localization for GNOME.
>> Unless you want to start a translation team, I do not see why any random
>> language would be "a good localization for Gnome". There are lots of
>> languages in the world, and only limited resources, so only languages that
>> people actually care about have active translation teams.
>
> Furthermore, there seem to be 0 native speakers for your self-invented
> language ;)

We have enough automation in gnome-i18n project. Then if anyone would
like to spend his free time on making a translation for specific
language (obsolete/unused/with no native-speakers etc.) that's not a
big problem for GNOME itself. And we should give that person
possibility to do it (translation). That's what free software is all
about.

>
>    — Wouter
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