Hi Caty, > On 4 Dec 2017, at 21:49, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think we should add en_GB and en_US to the list of supported > languages or split the translations.
We should definitely not add en_US to l10n since we maintain that one in Git. But note that en_US is now our officially - by the XWiki core dev team - supported language! :) (that was the point of this thread). > We should use the convention just when > making decisions on the correctness of words. Also I don't think there are > so many differences that it would justify the split. I don’t think it’s our call. There’s no reason for us to prevent anyone from being able to translate xwiki in their language. Second, I think your comment could be viewed as a bit offensive for some lovers of the british litterature ;) (telling them they should use the US words because “there aren’t so many differences between both languages”). Third, I dont really understand your point: It doesn’t cost anything to us (actually it probably costs us some space on l10n to be precise!). It’s possible I misunderstood your rationale so please explain more if there’s something I haven’t understood. Maybe you also missed the fact that anyone from the community would only need to add translations for the keys that have a different version from the en_US version one? I’ll let a few hours for others to comment in case someone else also thinks it’s a bad idea for some reason. Thanks -Vincent > > Thanks, > Caty > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks to all who answered. >> >> I’ve now documented it at: >> * http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ >> DevelopmentPractices#HGeneral >> * http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/ >> UserGuide/Features/I18N >> >> @Thomas: I’ve tried to add a new language by following >> http://l10n.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/L10N/AddALanguage but I couldn’t >> find the page referenced by "Edit the main page of the application.”. Do >> you think you could add en_GB to the list? Also, I think we should mention >> somewhere that the en_US version is maintained in Git by the XWiki Core dev >> team and explain how people could contribute to the en_US version. WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>> On 4 Dec 2017, at 13:35, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> By default the xwiki core committers maintain an “en” version of all >> translations and the other languages are left to the community to maintain >> on l10n.xwiki.org >>> >>> This mail is about deciding if our “en” version is “en_US” or “en_GB”. >>> >>> I propose that we standardize on “en_US”. for example >> ApplicationResources.properties would correspond to en_US. >>> >>> I also propose that we add en_GB on l10n so that the community could >> maintain a UK version if they want (it would fall back to en_US when there >> are no translations, which is a good thing). >>> >>> WDYT? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >> >>
