Hi, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (2003/09/11 17:48)
>IMHO, translating debconf templates (which *are* user interaction >stuff) should have more priority than translating package descriptions >(which are currently used only very partially)... I agree. Howver, when I speak about priority, I have to mention about Mojibake. It is more important to ensure that Mojibake never occur. To tell the truth, I don't like translating very basic packages into Japanese, because very basic softwares must work very reliably while Japanese-displaying environment is not always available. Though there are special softwares (such as kon and jfbterm) which enables displaying Japanese characters on console, I think I cannot hope Linux console itself will have Japanese-displaying ability in several years. Since core people in Linux and XFree86 are mainly European-language speakers, they tend to think Japanese font is too large to be supported. At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:25:25 +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > Have a look at > http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/ja > Japaneese is only 17% translated in that area. 664 strings are translated > (from 3820). This page also repports that you personnaly translated 4 > templates which are now not up to date anymore (alsa-driver, apt-build, > base-config and debconf)... Please don't compare the translation rate of 8bit languages and multibyte languages from the same viewpoint. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
