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 > much as it is a nuisance in other real-life software development where > the local language is the one that is targeted primarily, and is the > one that you would want in the msgids and base your other future > translations on.
What you call "gettext's English-centredness" is only a recommendation in the doc. You _can_ use another language as the language of the source files and the msgids in the PO files. Did you try it? Did you encounter problems? Sure there are people who start a web server software in Czech and then want to localize it to German. They can do so. But I will not recommend in the gettext doc to do like this. English and American are the world's most understood languages nowadays and for the next decades, not Czech, German, Spanish or whatever. It is short-sighted to start a fresh project with user interface strings in any other language than English. Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list Translate-pootle@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle