[Localization] 'Empate' in dots-and-boxes.po / Honey2

[Chris Leonard]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at somosazucar.org> wrote:
> Actually this does raise the question if it would be supported by our
> workflow to have the original language not be english. I don't see that it
> has to be the case, especially for instance, for activities built by
> children.
>
> Do you think all activities need to be in english in their source code?
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>

It is not a technical limitation, obviously Pootle can hold strings in
any language.  It is much more a matter of community convention.
English is by far the largest "common" language among our diverse
group of language communities.

The pool of locally developed activities (mostly in Spanish) that may
be hosted in ASLO, but not in Pootle is an opportunity for sharing
development work that we are not fully exploiting.  In last year's
Gogle Code-In we did create and complete a number of
internationalization tasks to refactor some of those activities for
i18n (with gettext and POT generation) and to convert the base strings
to English (for Pootle hosting).  I think this is an area where we
need to keep an eye out for opportunities to do more to share between
deployments.

cjl