Dear Walter Could you tell me please, at which stage is the implementation of my manuals of professional French into your laptops ? I am now working to finish as soon as possible the third of one from the 4 planned. Amically yours Attila Horvath-Militicsi from Novi Sad, Serbia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.6hunyadi-fle.org/HMA ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 2008. április 8. 18:00 Subject: Sugar Digest, Vol 22, Issue 35
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Sugar mtg April 08 2008 (Simon Schampijer) > 3. xulrunner beta5 in sugar-jhbuild (Simon Schampijer) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 01:56:15 -0700 > From: "Edward Cherlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [sugar] [Localization] code comments? > To: "Walter Bender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Sugar Mailing List <[email protected]>, Localization mailing > list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It may become an important feature over time, such as when we have >> Quechua support and want to fall back to Spanish before falling back >> to English, but I wouldn't think it is a priority in any of our >> current deployments. > > Current target countries > > Haiti: Krey?l/French/English > Rwanda: Kinyarwanda/English/French > Cambodia: Khmer/French/English > Afghanistan: Dari/Pashto/English, Pashto/Dari/Russian/English, > Pashto/Urdu/English, Dari/Tajik/English, Hazara/Dari/English... > Mongolia: Mongolian/Russian/English or Mongolian/English/Russian. > Later on a choice between Mongolian (Cyrillic) and Mongolian > (Traditional) will complicate matters further. > US: English/Spanish, English/French, English/Chinese, English/Italian, > English/Korean, English/Vietnamese,... > > Other possibilities > > Nigeria: any combination of Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, English and others > Brazil: Portuguese (Brazil)/Portuguese/English/Spanish, among other > possibilities > India: Any combination of more than 20 official languages, plus other > world languages > > Me: > English/French/German/Russian/Spanish/Yiddish/Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Swahili > > You can't decide for your users what they want. It is best to let them > choose. I don't say that you have to allow 10 choices, as in my > example, but four or five is quite common. My grandfather spoke > Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Yiddish, and later in life English, and > knew a fair amount of Hebrew and some Aramaic. They do say that the > correct English word for a person who speaks multiple languages is > "polyglot", and the correct English word for a person who speaks only > one language is "American". > >> -walter >> >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Very interesting, I guess we should integrate it in the language >> > section of the control panel. AFAIK, this is not being considered >> yet. >> > >> > If we don't want to add more complexity to the control panel UI, we >> > may assign under the hoods a fallback language to every language? > > No. Too many possibilities, not enough information. > >> > Perhaps someone from deployment could comment on the better milestone >> > to target this? >> > >> > Tomeu >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Bert Freudenberg >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Interesting, thanks. Are there any plans to make use of this >> feature >> > > in deployments? >> > > >> > > - Bert - >> > > >> > > >> > > On 05.04.2008, at 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> > > > Yes, by setting LANGUAGE env variable with a fall back language, >> > > > some thing >> > > > like "LANGUAGE=ur_PK:fa_IR:ar", you can specify multiple fall >> back >> > > > languages. >> > > > >> > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:31:30AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg >> wrote: >> > > >> ... which reminds me: Is it possible in gettext to fall back on >> a >> > > >> language other than English when a translation for some phrase >> cannot >> > > >> be found? That would be a useful feature I think, as long as >> there >> > > >> are >> > > >> programs that are not fully translated (which will happen very >> > > >> often). >> > > >> >> > > >> - Bert - >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Localization mailing list >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Sugar mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> One Laptop per Child >> http://laptop.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Localization mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization >> > > > > -- > Edward Cherlin > End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:18:25 +0200 > From: Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [sugar] Sugar mtg April 08 2008 > To: Sugar List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > In today's meeting we will review eben's sugar todo list: > > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-April/004909.html > > and discuss some parts like the 'AlertBox' in detail. > > See you, > Simon > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:06:53 +0200 > From: Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [sugar] xulrunner beta5 in sugar-jhbuild > To: Sugar List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > I have updated sugar-jhbuild to use the xulrunner beta 5 sources > http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/04/02/firefox-3-beta-5-now-available-for-download/ > > It passed the buildbot test as well: > http://iorich.caltech.edu:8014/A/builds/203 > > Enjoy, > Simon > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > > End of Sugar Digest, Vol 22, Issue 35 > ************************************* _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
