Shaun McCance wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 21:10 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: >> Shaun McCance wrote: >>> I have some comments and questions after reading that >>> page. Mind you, I haven't downloaded NewStuffManager >>> or dug into it. I'm going off of what you've described >>> on the web page. >>> >>> The repository XML files contain human-readable strings, >>> like the name element. From the RNG scheme, it doesn't >>> appear these can be localized using the standard xml:lang >>> attribute. >>> >> I must admit didn't think of i18n or l10n at all. >> >> But I don't think it's a good idea to internationalize the repository's >> XML file. >> Especially the name element. Can you really translate the name of a plugin? >> Furthermore, it would be lot of work to translate all the stuff for a big >> repository and contents can change often. So you would need to translate >> the file over and over again. >> Lastly. RPM or deb files aren't internationalized either. > > I didn't know RPM and deb weren't internationalized. If that's > the case, I think that's a very poor decision on the parts of > those developers. Both of them contain a lot of information > that should be translated into the user's language.
Woah there. I can't say for debs, but RPM files most assuredly are internationalized. There are some oddities with encodings but packagers can provide locale dependent descriptions (and, I *think* summaries). Fedora, at least, requires that spec files be written using US-ASCII when possible and UTF-8 otherwise, but I'm pretty sure it's possible to write specfiles in other encodings, as problematic as that might be. --Shahms _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
