[maemo-developers] Maemo localization to officially non-supported languages

[From: Mohammed Hassan]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 08:56 +0300, ext Quim Gil wrote:
> - Logical IDs vs internal processes. I'm still digesting the thread but
> it looks that it could be done. Won't be easy but it doesn't need to be
> done all in once (am I right?). Cases like browser or email client could
> be isolated. Hildon requires anyway its own attention. Etc.

This is not a showstopper. l10n can still be done. We can still
workaround them. It's just that people started arguing about logical IDs
only.

Yes no one likes them but they are another issue.

> - License of English content and translations. I guess what is really
> relevant is what translators can do with the English content and the
> works they derive from it.

That's mainly the license for the POT files I guess. I'm trying to
handle it.


> - Adding new languages. Technically possible but how to end up offering
> new/community language variants to end users. The objective would be
> that user goes to i.e. "Esperanto language pack" one-click install and
> after downloading dependencies can activate this language just like they
> can do now with the supported languages.

I'd say this has to be an effort between l10n and i18n. I'm welling to
put effort.

> - Translators, how we help them getting organized.

I'd like to discuss that farther rather than the logical IDs problem.


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Localization Engineer
OSSO - Nokia Multimedia