[Localization] How to submit an activity for localization?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:32:24PM -0500, Pierre Métras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've written a simple clock activity 
> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Clock_activity). The code is so simple that I 
> don't use a source repository or host it on dev.laptop.org yet. But I want it 
> to support localization. Is it possible to have the pot/po files on the 
> Pootle server and reconcile manually the translations?
> 
> Also, at the present time, would be localised messages are quite limited: 
> activity title, hour marks and day/date formats. I will add new features if I 
> feel the need, like digital clock display or alarm. But I have a few idiot 
> questions. Do all analog clocks look the same in all cultures? For instance, 
> could hands turn counter clock wise in right to left reading civilisations? 
> Or with a different number of hands? Or for digital clocks, do they all use 
> arabic (1, 2, 3...) or localized digits? 

Though I haven't seen a digital clock using eastern Arabic digits (or
Indic-Arabic as Unicode calls it) I Think this is a sort of technical
limitation and I'd really like to see the digital clock activity using
localized numbers.

> Apart from the 12/24 hours display, 
> is the format always HH:MM:SS? Or is time display one of the few points where 
> humanity has agreed on a common representation?
> 
> Pierre Métras
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-- 
 Khaled Hosny
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