[Sugar-devel] [Localization] speak.po: issue with drop-down list of languages

[Chris Leonard]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Rafael Ortiz <rafael at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:57 AM, samy boutayeb <s.boutayeb at free.fr> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > In the Speak activity, the drop-down list of the languages is
>> > incoherent.
>> > Some language names listed may be edited via Pootle in speak.po, whereas
>> > other (as EN:"Ancient greek") are translated incorrectly ( FR:"Grec
>> > ancient", to be replaced by FR:"Grec ancien").
>> >
>> > Apparently, the file speak.po is incomplete, and the list can't be
>> > updated. For instance, there is no string "Ancient greek" in this file.
>> >
>> > Could somebody fix this issue?
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Samy,
>>
>> I'll take a look, but I think the lsit of languages available for
>> Speak is limited by the set of voice files created for e-speak.
>>
>> http://espeak.sourceforge.net/languages.html
>>
> +1, if the language is not there, probably it won't be any difference on
> translating it.

It seems like the only thing to do would be to engage with the espeak upstream

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

and work with them to improve "voice" localization.

A variety of Activities besides Speak use the espeak engine (including
Memorize and Jigsaw-Puzzle), so upstream improvements would benefit
more than just Speak.

cjl