On 10/05/2015 10:01 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:15 AM, goto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> To whom it may concern, >> >> I guess you know about the current refugee crisis in Europe. >> >> Our club has set up a some machines with Xubuntu for a local refugee >> camp to allow refugees getting their stuff done. >> >> Most of the refugees speak only Arabic, Kurdish or Farsi(Persian). >> >> Sadly XFCE is not that good translated and most of the XFCE elements are >> still not working. >> >> We need the translation urgently because the refugees can't use the >> machines until they learned English or German or the translation got >> better. >> >> We try to encourage local people speaking this languages (and English >> speaking refugees) to help us translating this stuff. >> >> My two questions are: >> 1) If we tell the people to use the official Site: >> https://www.transifex.com/xfce/public/ - How long does it take until we >> get the translation on out local machines? >> 2) If we decide to build our own .lo/.mo-files with the translated texts >> - Can we submit them to the translation project? >> >> > I think the priority is to select an environment, if any, that has an > existing localisation > for those languages. > If you were to attempt to fix the missing localisation in XFCE, > it would take too much of resources which I suppose you may not have.
Is there any? Out team did choose XFCE because of simplicity and build a script that creates a "Guest" user. It's kinda ugly hack but it works for the moment. > Do you need a desktop environment fully localised or would it suffice to > have at least > the visible messages of a browser localised? > Which distribution comes with the appropriate fonts and writing support for > the mentioned languages? > Do you really need Farsi localisation or do you need Pashto (or even Urdu)? A third of the refugees here speak Farsi. But Pashto and Urdu would be great for the other Camp. > Simos > goto
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