This is a great idea! I actually have a list going that I can share of terms that are different throughout. We should certainly have different English dictionaries to be the most user friendly.
-- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Joshua Ferraro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Please forgive the re posting, but I think I managed to time my original > > for when HDL was moving the lists. > > > > Anyway here is my request again. > > > > I would like to do a Koha Translation into NZ English. This way we can > > manage some of the terms in the interface that those of us in this part of > > the world don't use. Things like zipcode -> postcode, state -> region etc. > > > > Can a en-NZ language code be setup please? > If we're going to start getting picky about English in the official > releases, and > having multiple variants, I'd suggest we first clean up the existing > English to a > specific variant so that we have something to work from, rather than the > hodge > podge that's currently in /prog/en (it's currently a mixture of en-NZ/GB, > en-FR > and en-US). The best way to do that would be to have some kind of official > language dictionary for library terms ... > > Fortunately, there's a free Dictionary for Library and Information Science > that > we can avail ourselves of: http://lu.com/odlis/. Would anyone be interested > in > 'cleaning up' the English language strings in accordance with ODLIS? > > Also, w/respect to en-NZ, isn't that the same or nearly the same as en-GB? > > Cheers, > > -- > Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE > CEO migration, training, maintenance, support > LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
