Re: PROPOSAL: Evolution for GNOME 2.6

[Toby Smith <thlsmith iprimus com au>]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 11:05, Sven Herzberg wrote:
> Am Mo, den 24.11.2003 schrieb Danilo Segan um 22:52:
> > This is definitely a wasted effort for translators: users will not
> > need names of towns other than those they have heard of, and they're
> > more likely to need towns that are not in that list (eg. tiny towns
> > in their own country of residence).
> 
> Christian Neumair, the leader of the german GNOME translation once hat
> the plan to create some kind of libgeographic with lots of geographic
> names and descriptions to be translated.
> 
> If one could get all those names extracted from evolution and into
> libgeographic, then evolution and other country/city-related stuff can
> profit from translation of this module.

I imagine there are a lot of strings duplicated throughout all of the
gnome projects, perhaps gnome needs a new "strings" module that contains
translations for strings used in common user interface elements as well
as country/city-related stuff translations.

--Toby