On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 12:20:47PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > Hello, > > this is a common concern for the translation of libre resources. It > would be indeed better if English would not be such a central language in > our systems, for many reasons. Using esperanto as a pivot language > instead would indeed be a very pleasant change. But to be honnest, I > doubt to see that in my lifetime. There is too few esperanto speaker in > the world in general, and in libre communities in particular. We would > probably not have that many contributors to po4a if esperanto were a > prerequisite for that...
I would agree with you but ... let's "hope" like the word Esperanto suggests... ;-) > Plus, actually, nothing in po4a nor in po forces to use english as a > pivot language. It's just the habit. And the message you are refering too > is some sort of a shortcut. The sentence is already complex enough that I > did not felt to make it worse by changing "English" to "original > language" here. If you have a better formulation that is both more > neutral and simpler, I'd be glad to integrate it. Good to know since I knew that also gettext is not anymore "English centric". I am not a English native speaker so my English is far from perfect. Therefore I won't suggest a "better" rephrasing (as I am not able to do it myself) but perhaps you can pass on this little piece of information inserting just this: "Let's say our original source reference (or pivot, your choice here) language is English." So it would be: "The idea is to reuse and adapt the gettext approach to this field. As with " "gettext, texts are extracted from their original locations and presented to " "translators as PO translation catalogs. The translators can leverage the " "classical gettext tools to monitor the work to do, collaborate and organize " "as teams. po4a then injects the translations directly into the documentation " "structure to produce translated source files that can be processed and " "distributed just like the s/English/original source/ files. "Let's say our original source reference language is English. " "Any paragraph that is not " "translated is left in English in the resulting document, ensuring that the " "end users never see an outdated translation in the documentation." > Thanks for noticing, you're welcome. -- Saluton, Marco Ciampa _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
