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jan.kundrat at fzu

Mar 24, 2005, 3:52 PM

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General questions about translating

Hi,
I'm translating Gentoo Handbook into czech (bug #85940 for those
interrested) and I'm in doubt on how much accurate the translation
should be:

1) In handbook/hb-install-system.xml is a description about glibc's
userlocales USE flag and some examples about german locales. Is it OK to
convert these into cs_CZ? I wonder if it would break some policy or
something :-)

2) Similar thing about rsync mirrors - czech language is used only in
central Europe, so may I alter default rsync settings to
rsync.europe.gentoo.org? IMHO I can.

3) Is it possible to translate also files outside the /doc/ directory?
/main/en/mirrors.xml could be a good candidate as it is linked from
Handbok several times. This file is not included in metadoc.xml, BTW. I
see that FR has /main/fr/{about|contract}.xml, are there any special
reqquirements for those? I can imagine that Gentoo won't trust
translations of docs such closely related to mainpage submitted by
unknown user...

TIA,
-jkt

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swift at gentoo

Mar 25, 2005, 1:01 AM

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Re: General questions about translating [In reply to]

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm translating Gentoo Handbook into czech (bug #85940 for those
> interrested) and I'm in doubt on how much accurate the translation
> should be:
>
> 1) In handbook/hb-install-system.xml is a description about glibc's
> userlocales USE flag and some examples about german locales. Is it OK to
> convert these into cs_CZ? I wonder if it would break some policy or
> something :-)

That's ok, you are encouraged to make localization changes to the
installation instructions. Of course, if a language is used in several
countries, a good default is still needed.

> 2) Similar thing about rsync mirrors - czech language is used only in
> central Europe, so may I alter default rsync settings to
> rsync.europe.gentoo.org? IMHO I can.

Sure.

> 3) Is it possible to translate also files outside the /doc/ directory?
> /main/en/mirrors.xml could be a good candidate as it is linked from
> Handbok several times. This file is not included in metadoc.xml, BTW. I
> see that FR has /main/fr/{about|contract}.xml, are there any special
> reqquirements for those? I can imagine that Gentoo won't trust
> translations of docs such closely related to mainpage submitted by
> unknown user...

That's okay. Yes, you can translate such files as well, we don't mind.
But I'm not quite convinced why you would need to translate
/main/en/mirrors.xml, after all, it's just a huge sum-up of all our
mirrors and hardly has any text in it.

Plus that it is touched by many people (infa-wise) which sometimes lack
understanding of "version bumping" (although this has dramatically
improved lately).

Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen

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jan.kundrat at fzu

Mar 25, 2005, 1:03 AM

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Re: General questions about translating [In reply to]

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> ...

Sorry for double-post, please ignore the other message.

BTW, everytime I send message to gentoo-doc, I got a bounce from
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neysx at gentoo

Mar 25, 2005, 3:38 AM

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Re: General questions about translating [In reply to]

Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> Jan Kundrát wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm translating Gentoo Handbook into czech (bug #85940 for those
>> interrested) and I'm in doubt on how much accurate the translation
>> should be:
>>
>> 1) In handbook/hb-install-system.xml is a description about glibc's
>> userlocales USE flag and some examples about german locales. Is it OK to
>> convert these into cs_CZ? I wonder if it would break some policy or
>> something :-)
>
> That's ok, you are encouraged to make localization changes to the
> installation instructions. Of course, if a language is used in several
> countries, a good default is still needed.

Indeed, by all means do.

>> 2) Similar thing about rsync mirrors - czech language is used only in
>> central Europe, so may I alter default rsync settings to
>> rsync.europe.gentoo.org? IMHO I can.
>
> Sure.
>
> > 3) Is it possible to translate also files outside the /doc/ directory?
>
>> /main/en/mirrors.xml could be a good candidate as it is linked from
>> Handbok several times. This file is not included in metadoc.xml, BTW.
>> I see that FR has /main/fr/{about|contract}.xml, are there any special
>> reqquirements for those? I can imagine that Gentoo won't trust
>> translations of docs such closely related to mainpage submitted by
>> unknown user...
>
> That's okay. Yes, you can translate such files as well, we don't mind.
> But I'm not quite convinced why you would need to translate
> /main/en/mirrors.xml, after all, it's just a huge sum-up of all our
> mirrors and hardly has any text in it.

/main/fr/{about|contract}.xml should be translated eventually, one thing at a
time.
I don't think mirrors.xml is a good candidate either.
Maybe if it could have a section with an id per country, we could link to the
right section from translations, like in
http://dev.gentoo.org/~neysx/gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml.html

Other docs under /proj are open for translation.

>> BTW, everytime I send message to gentoo-doc,
>> I got a bounce from gordon [at] 23s:

I used to as well, .procmailrc redirects them to /dev/null
lcars just removed that email, it should not bounce anymore.

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jan.kundrat at fzu

Mar 25, 2005, 3:46 AM

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Re: General questions about translating [In reply to]

Xavier Neys wrote:
> I don't think mirrors.xml is a good candidate either.
> Maybe if it could have a section with an id per country, we could link
> to the right section from translations, like in
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~neysx/gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml.html

Yep, something like that.

> >> BTW, everytime I send message to gentoo-doc,
> >> I got a bounce from gordon [at] 23s:
>
> I used to as well, .procmailrc redirects them to /dev/null
> lcars just removed that email, it should not bounce anymore.

Thanks.

-jkt

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