Hi Martin, *,

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:16:42PM +0100, Martin Srebotnjak wrote:
> While mentioning resources, what was the decision regarding
> localization of the language packs for Mac? If there was any? Should
> we start translating? Or will this be incorporated into sdf/gsi (i.e.
> po) files?

Any translations (if there are any) will be part of the regular
translation mechanism of OOo - i.e. the strings would be put in some sdf
file and translators then can convert to po or any other format of their
choice.

But as Shaun correctly wrote: I didn't recieve any further feedback.

Last time I uploaded test-languagepacks they were only downloaded
twice, nobody add comments to the spec in the wiki either, people seem
to not care, and then there was exams season, so I didn't push it myself...

I'm still undecided what the best way to go is.

It is only clear that it won't be possible to provide a langaugepack
installer that has all translations and a string like "This is the
French/German/Japanese languagepack installer". (since that would
require all translators to translate every language name, and the
packaging process of the languagepack would have to choose different
strings for all of the languagepacks, even it the installer was only
english, it would have to be changed for each language (this is way too
much effort for such little gain)

So that leaves the following choices:
* Only english, no translations
* English and langauge of the languagepack
* only langauge of the languagepack

Not sure whether to include all languages makes sense at all, that's why
it is not listed.

For the two language options, there's the choice between
* two seperate icons/launchers
* one launcher, providing two buttons (one for english, one for
  $language)
 
But as these points are not clear yet, it doesn't make sense to start
translating.
Even if the way was clear, the english stings/the dialogs themselves
have not been approved either.

You're basically the only one who commented on the specification, the
dialogs themselves (thanks for that).

I guess I should take the lack of feedback as "it's acceptable how it is
now" and just go on with it...

ciao
Christian
-- 
NP: nichts

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