Re: Malayalam (ml) not mentioned among supported languages in Gnome 3.6

[Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:58 +0530, Ani Peter wrote:
>> Malayalam (ml) has 82% status for UI translations in Gnome 3.6 (84% for
>> UI translations reduced) [1]. But I cannot find my language listed in [2].
>> Please let me know the reason for the same or guide me if I am missing
>> anything.
>
> Hi,
>
> it's my mistake, and I'm very sorry for that. I accidentially removed it
> in commit 2b92a093d3109d1f1453394f82638c774ad1e79c .
>
> If we re-added it it would create a new string to translate for all
> other teams so I'm not sure what to do.
> Maybe I can take a look at older release notes and reuse the
> translations for "Malayalam" from there so it would not create
> additional work for the teams.

Andre,

Just wanted to share two of my favorite tricks for finding localized
language names.

1) Look it up in the ISO639 or ISO-639-3 PO files for the relevant language.

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=iso-codes/iso-codes.git;a=tree

2) Look up the Language article in English Wikipedia, check out the
left hand bar for an interwiki link to the same article in another
language's Wikipedia.  Not surprisingly, there are a high percentage
of languages with wiki articles on their own language (in their own
language), so this is not quite as random as it may seem.

cjl