[Edu-sig] Request advice/opinions on translations for Crunchy

[kirby urner]

As we learned from Plone, internationalization has much to do with
"skinning", with a quick way to recustomize depending on a user's
needs.

(a) should we just freeze a master disk for each language,
(b) or might one distro handle multiple languages through some core
library reskinning service?

I think interimly, the former is more practical, as these core
services don't exist yet, what with unicode still being somewhat in
its infancy and so on.

We need the assistance of locales to get their versions defined in
some electronic archive.  Like, where's the gaelic version of Linux,
or at least a GNU desktop thereon?

One solution I've found: http://www.kde.ie/ga.php

Kirby


On 8/17/06, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/17/06, Dan Crosta <dcrosta at sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
> > On Aug 17, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Andre Roberge wrote:
> > > 4. [and this is what I'm mostly asking about]  Graphics commands, for
> > > example circle() or set_line_color() or set_line_colour()  [we support
> > > both syntax ;-)].  The strings are ready to be translated [i.e.
> > > replace circle() by cercle(), or set_line_color() by
> > > couleur_de_ligne()] but, since the documentation (and tutorials) are
> > > likely to be only in English, I'm wondering about the wisdom of
> > > translating them.