On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:20:01AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > (if answering, please keep CC and put "X-PTS-Approved: yes" in headers > so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets the mail) > > Quoting Clytie Siddall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi guys :) > > > > I'm in the middle of one of my running efforts to get developers to > > use iso-codes as a plugin/library for their software, so they won't > > have long lists of language names, country names, currency names etc. > > in their programs which we have to translate over and over again, and > > which they invariably fail to keep accurate or current. > > > > In this case, it's Evolution (GNOME). > > > > While paging through the huge Evolution translation file, I note that, > > in addition to a lo-o-ng list of language names, and an equally long > > list of time/date data they could get from the locale, Evo lists > > timezones. e.g. > > > > #. > > #.* These are the timezone names from the Olson timezone data. > > #.* We only place them here so gettext picks them up for translation. > > #.* Don't include in any C files. > > #. > > #: ../calendar/zones.h:7 > > msgid "Africa/Abidjan" > > msgstr "Châu Phi/Abidjan" > > > > Any chance iso-codes will take on timezones? > > > Could be interesting. But not necessarily the way to go. > > However, that'd require some coordination with fellow people who > (well) maintain such stuff. In Debian, the tzdata package is now well > developed and maintained, for instance. > > I don't really know if timezones are normalized in some way. If they > are, it could make sense to imagine moving this to iso-codes (so that > it could benefit people outside Debian). But timezones data goes far > beyond simple names: it includes information about the shift wrt UTC > as well as Daylight Savings Time information. > > > If timezones aren't normalized, I think it > would maybe make more sense to keep this in a separate > package/distribution.
tzdata now works on a Zone/City basis. I am not sure the iso-codes also define city names. Then I guess it is mainly a question for the translators. We don't mind if the names are translated by hand or using the data from iso-codes as long as we have a .po file to drop in debian/po. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
