On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:24:21PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:47:49AM +0700, arief muLya wrote: > > Is there any port to Indonesian Language in Debian's wolrd, yet? > > How can I help?
You may also contact Junaedi Kartawijaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who is listed by http://www.debian.org/devel/website/translation_coordinators as the coordinator of the website translation in Indonesian. I think he may know the other people currently translating for Debian, if any. I agree with the priority to give to end-user programs, but I'd like to temperate it: I think that the website and basis programs like dpkg itself are also good candidate. afaik, there is only one translator for the swedish website, and according to http://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats/, it's the language in which the website is the better translated. but ID really needs help: only 16 pages from 1130 are translated and uptodate... See also: http://www.debian.org/devel/website/translating If you want to translate debconf templates, the best solution is to install the debconf-doc pakage (from woody), and read it. According to http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/templates/ no debconf template at all is translated to ID. That's not a real problem since this is not centralized. But I think the main task for ID translator is to organize themselves. The first task is to open a mailing list for you all, and then to try to find more and more translators. See also: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list Thanks, Mt. > Support for a language is a range. If I'm not mistaken, Indonesian is > written in the Latin script and can be written using the English > alphabet and the following characters: > > ���������������������������������������������������������������� > (aka Latin-1). > > Right? If so, then you're lucky - Debian's programs will work for you > without problems, unlike Arabic, Hebrew or (sometimes) Japanese > speakers. If you're running Woody or Sid, you need to add id_ID to > /etc/locale.gen - there's a Debconf interface in the recent versions of > locales. (If you're running Potato, I'd recommend switch to Woody or Sid > if you plan to do much localization.) > > The main problem left is translation. You might want to check out > http://i18n.linux.or.id for what's being worked on. If you want to help > with Debian specifically, find a Debian-native program that's not been > translated to Indonesian and translate it (most use po files - the site > I just give should details, albeit I can't read it.) Alternately, you > can translate the debconf templates - somebody else can explain that for > you. > > In my uninformed opinion, I'd concentrate on end-user programs, like > Mozilla, KDE and Gnome. Trying to translate everything the sysadmin > needs to read to Indonesian is a hopeless task, while KDE can be > translated by a few (very dedicated) individual (Wolfram Diestel is the > only KDE translator for Esperanto, and Esperanto is one of the most > throughly translated languages for KDE applications (but not > documentation).) And getting KDE or Gnome translated can give an > end-user the appearance of an almost complete translation, whereas > you'd have to translate the whole system for the sysadmin to get that > impression.
