On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:58 AM, F Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Op Vr, 2011-09-09 om 09:45 -0500 skryf Kevin Scannell: >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Kevin Scannell <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm interested in helping with the translation of Gnome for my own language >> > Irish (ga). There's already a team for Irish. > > Hi Kevin > > Welcome to the GNOME community!
Thanks. Usual suspects :) >> > I'd also like to start a team for the Ojibwe language (oj). >> > I'm in touch with a speaker who is interested in translating a few >> > programs. >> > >> > My issue is that I'm having difficulty logging into l10n.gnome.org >> > with an OpenID. >> > It let me register (username kscanne) and appeared to accept >> > my OpenID. But when I logged in it came back with an error: >> > "OpenID failed Unknown user" >> > >> > Could someone reset my account and I'll just log in with a password? >> > Resetting password through the login page didn't work either. >> >> >> Never mind, the password reset worked in the end. >> >> I'd still like to set up an Ojibwe team though. A followup thought on >> that - it might be best to set it up as "oj_CA" since there are two >> writing systems in use by speakers of the language, Latin script >> (common in the US) and Canadian syllabics (common in Canada). Using >> the region codes would be an easy, if imperfect, way of dealing with >> this issue. Better would be to support BCP-47 language tags like >> oj-Cans and oj-Latn but I suppose that would take some serious work. > > The process is most easily started by submitting the first translated > file to be committed. Then the language can be created with the contact > details, etc. A slightly relevant question is whether a glibc locale > already exists for Ojibwe. There is no locale, AFAIK. I'll take care of that and submit to glibc as soon as possible. > > There are a few other notes here: > https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/StartingATeam/ > > > As for the scripts: GNOME follows the glibc convention with things like > uz@cyrillic or be@latin > Other people would be able to say better how these are handled in > language switchers, etc. > > I'm obviously no expert in these languages, but it sounds as if this is > the more appropriate way to handle the "script split". > Ok, good point. Maybe best if I sort that out with glibc and will report back here when we're ready to start the Gnome team. Kevin _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
