On Wednesday 31 Dec 2008 5:26:31 pm Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Not at all Mugunth. I can understand. That was not expression of > > frustration but rather a inward question Why? > > For various reasons, many of which share a common trait with the general > lack of Indian contributors to FOSS.
a very important factor - who does translations? Not software developers. The people who do are the endusers who *require* translation. You want a tamil translation of say, drupal. You will only get it when someone wants to build a drupal based site in Tamil - not before. There are a few people like Amachu or Kartik Mistry and some others who translate for love of their native language - but these are exceptions. I would warrant that 90% of the web developers on this list - or developers on this list - do not write i18n code. They do not feel the need - there *is* no need. And translation where there *is* a need is a very trivial matter. I once developed a site where there was a need for both english and finnish. All I did was send the relevant .po files to the client, she dug up poedit in windows and did the needful in a day or two - and still updates it when needed. So go create endusers in local languages for your software - translations will happen. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
