On 2004-08-06(Fri) 21:13:05 +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > But by switching all po files at once, and making gdm define > LANGUAGE=3Dnb:no it will create the less trouble for the majority > of people. > Switching the whole of Gnome will give also incentive to other projects, > not using gettext, to switch from "no" to "nb" too. Pablo is true in the above sentences. You have to make others feel that switching is the good thing to do, so that others are willing to follow. > > really good enough for a normal distro. >=20 > Well, Mandrakelinux actually does like that for some time already > (as the nb/no duality in translations is not new at all); > some programs needed special care; but in most cases it is transparent. >=20 > BTW, how was done the switch for Chinese? (zh_CN.GB2312 -> zh_CN > and zh_TW.Big5 -> zh_TW), and for Nynorsk? (no nynorsk -> nn) A bit of CVS work and announcements -- do the real work, then actively tell distros such change has been done. For chinese locales, they are long standing problems, so no one object to the changes. After zh_TW changes, zh_CN also follow quickly. Don't know about nn, someone may want to tell your experience here? > > How do you add "nb" at the appropriate place in ALL_LINGUAS when you > > don't know what entry it's supposed to be placed in front of? Just > > curious :-) >=20 > The ordering is irrelevant (keeping alphabetic order is just easier for > humans editing the file), so just replacing "no" with "nb" (or with=20 > "nb no" if you want to keep both) is ok: >=20 > for i in `find * configure.in` > do > rm -f tmfile > cat $i | \ > sed 's/\(ALL_LINGUAS=3D.*\)\<no\>\(.*\)/\1nb no\2/' > tmpfile && \ > cat tmpfile > $i > done >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Ki =C3=A7a vos v=C3=A5ye b=C3=A9n, > Pablo Saratxaga >=20 > http://chanae.walon.org/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 > [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Catalan or Espera= nto] > [min povas skribi en valona, esperanta, angla aux latinidaj lingvoj] > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n -- Abel Cheung Linux counter #256983 | http://counter.li.org GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) | http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF
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