Re: [translate-pootle] [Translation-i18n] gettext with non-en source language

2007-01-29 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
29 січня 2007 о 14:13 + MJ Ray написав(-ла): Could the gettext manual be clearer and state that it is possible? English-language advocacy seems particularly inappropriate there of all places. It's only posible if: 1. You do not use non-ascii characters, otherwise your program will work with

Re: [translate-pootle] [Translation-i18n] gettext with non-en source language

2006-10-08 Thread Clytie Siddall
Sorry it's taken me so long to answer this. On 04/10/2006, at 2:11 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Jean-Christophe Helary schrieb: There is tremendous localization activity in African countries (not limited to South Africa) and other developer-poor areas. See Javier Sola's work in Cambodia. Of

Re: [translate-pootle] [Translation-i18n] gettext with non-en source language

2006-10-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: In the next decades and starting very soon, the world's most understood languages will be Chinese and Hindi, and especially those two will have a huge influence on the IT world. And only the people who don't read Chinese on Hindi are blind to that. It is

Re: [translate-pootle] [Translation-i18n] gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-28 Thread F Wolff
On Do, 2006-09-28 at 13:46 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: Christian Rose wrote: gettext's English-centredness (which to large parts is historical, but in some cases still exists, like in the handling of plural forms) is both a blessing for our community where English is the UI default, as

Re: [translate-pootle] [Translation-i18n] gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
On 26 sept. 06, at 22:35, Bruno Haible wrote: MJ Ray asked: Question raised on -l10n-esperanto recently: can gettext be used for localising a program with a utf-8 non-English source language? That is, the thing in the _(...) has accents and isn't English. Technically, it is possible to use

Re: [translate-pootle] [Translation-i18n] gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-26 Thread Bruno Haible
MJ Ray asked: Question raised on -l10n-esperanto recently: can gettext be used for localising a program with a utf-8 non-English source language? That is, the thing in the _(...) has accents and isn't English. Technically, it is possible to use a non-English source language. You have to

Re: [translate-pootle] [Translation-i18n] gettext with non-en source language

2006-09-26 Thread Christian Rose
On 9/26/06, Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bigger problem is to get translators which understand this non-English language. Translators from, say, Spanish to Hungarian are more difficult to find than translators from English to Hungarian. That is not always the case. It may be the