Hi *,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:08:14PM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> 
> > > Excellent. This means that the French project can call it Stylist and the 
> > > English 
> > > version can call it "Styles and Formatting", right?
> > 
> > No. Because localization for a couple of languages is done Sun-internal.
> 
> I don't understand what you just said.

If french or german or <other any other language that is handled
sun-internal> native-lang-project wants to have a string changed, this
has to be done (and therefore approved) by Sun.
And "sun internal" may be misleading. AFAIK Sun pays for the translation
for those languages (maybe its only the OnlineHelp that Sun pays for to
be translated - don't know exaclty).

This is also the reason why fixing typos for those languages can take ages.

> What makes the German project and Autopilot different from the French project 
> and 
> the Stylist ?

German-lang project was involved in the naming-process for the
AutoPilot. German language is special in another aspect: It is part of
the main sources, not of the translation-files. English and German UI
strings are set directly by developers (not translators). What the
strings should look like is defined in the specs.

ciao
Christian
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