Re: Review needed for Pango language sample strings

["Tomasz Dominikowski" <dominikowski gmail com>]

Polish is fine :]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Catalan is fine too.
>
> Thanks a lot for your hard work ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> El dt 26 de 08 de 2008 a les 18:12 -0400, en/na Behdad Esfahbod va
> escriure:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Pango keeps a single string (sentence) per language that it uses internally
>> and also exposes for other applications to use (in a font dialog for example).
>>  Previously the sample text were quite limited (about 20 language supported),
>> and bogus.  I have not extended the list to about a hundred tables.  I used
>> various sample-string, pangram, and other resources freely available.  These
>> can be found here:
>>
>> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/pango/trunk/pango/pango-language-sample-table.h?view=markup
>>
>> I'm now asking translation teams to review the sentence for their language
>> now.  Please file a bug against pango at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ if you
>> think a sample string needs to be changed.  A good sample string would be:
>>
>>   - Politically correct
>>
>>   - Representative of normal text in the language (so, no alphabetical lists)
>>
>>   - Exposes features unique to the language (European sample strings would use
>> diacritics used in the target language for example)
>>
>>   - Not too short, not too long
>>
>>   - Not copied from what Windows uses (unless it's a very widespread thing
>> like "The quick brown fox..."
>>
>>
>> That's it.  Thanks in advance,
>>
>> behdad
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