On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > > There are a couple tools to help translation. KBabel is the one from > > KDE project, and there's a gtranslator for more GNOMEi look. > > I've got to give them both a test, and if I don't like them, I'll write my > own tools. :-)
That's what is considered reinventing a wheel ;-). You can just get on and improve gtranslator. > > I remember Roozbeh was preparing a guide for Persian GNOME > > translators. There is also a list for that that Roozbeh will > > subscribe you eventually. The translation process is definitely not > > as easy as it is for a left-to-right language. > > Also we are a bit picky about words to use, want to conform to the > > Persian Academy translations and other sources... But help is > > definitely welcome. > > I suppose I'll receive a list of such words with the approved translations, > isn't it? I personally have a low opinion about most of those "translated" > words that the Persian Academy has assigned (I'll *never* call computers > "Raayaaneh"!) but some of them sound meaningful, and anyway I'm not here to > enforce my personal preferences, but to help! Yes, just keep pinging Roozbeh. > > Roozbeh is a bit busier than before these days. If you didn't gety > > ANY feedback on these, come to in September again and I will use my > > privileges :-). > > Fine - although I'd prefer to start right away, since the occasions in which > I have spare time are pretty scarce, and I'd like to use them well. I prefer you start right away too. ROOZBEH, hello, wake up... > > Since you are in Iran now, you may also want to join gnome-ir-list on > > http://lists.gnome.org/ and help starting GNOME enthusiasm in Iran; > > this great desktop has been left in cold there... > > I did. Hmm, the list doesn't seem to want to attract many people, does it? > I had to type the URL by hand, and if it were not because of my personal > experience with Mailman, I would have never found its subscription page! > Maybe you'd like to make the list more visible... It's supposed to attract GNOME-lovers. The problem is that I can't find any time to fire it up... Perhaps after FarsiWeb set up its wiki system. --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
