[Localization] [sugar] Some extra information for Etoys translation

Korakurider korakurider at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 20:19:09 EDT 2008


I think we could split the system configuration stuff into another
domain to avoid such confusion.
/Korakurider

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
>  Thank you, Sayamindu,
>
>  By the way, while trying to copy the "extra information" from
> Scratch to Etoys, I found that some translators translated the
> keyword, when they are supposed to provide the information.  For
> example, Linux-Font in French for Scratch is translated,
> "Fonte-Linux", and "Language-Name" in Kreyol is "Lang-Non", Linux-Font
> for Turkish is "linux yaz? tipi", etc.  (I pasted the "Language-Name"
> entry from Arabic, but not sure what it actually says.)  I saw bunch
> of language names in Scratch and all looked ok so I was assuming the
> data on Pootle is ok, too...
>
>  So, folk, please visit these entries and read the comments.  Thank
> you!
>
> -- Yoshiki
>
> At Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:46:23 +0530,
> Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
>> >  Hello,
>> >
>> >  We've added some mechanism to Etoys so that you can (indirectly)
>> > specify the rendering mechanism for text in Etoys.
>> >
>> >  Soon an few entries will show up on the Pootle server, and one of
>> > these is "Linux-Font".  If you think your language should be rendered
>> > with Pango, specify the prefered font name as the translation.  Or, if
>> > you think it is not necessary, leave it blank.
>> >
>> >  The font name doesn't have to exact; as long as the entry is not
>> > empty, the Etoys system asks Pango to render text.  Likewise, please
>> > provide the language name in the language for "Language-Name".  It
>> > will be displayed in the language chooser menu.
>> >
>> >  The entries are the same as Scratch's; so I will copy-and-paste from
>> > Scratch's to Etoys as a default.
>> >
>> >  Sayamindu, could you run the script that push stuff from git to
>> > Pootle, if the next 24 hour cycle is not too close?
>> >
>>
>>
>> Done.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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