[sugar] Sugar Digest, Vol 22, Issue 35
Walter Bender
walter.bender
Tue Apr 8 12:33:01 EDT 2008
All that is needed to convert your manuals, which seem to be HTML,
into a form suitable for the laptops is to create a library bundle.
The instructions can be found in the wiki here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Content_bundles
regards.
-walter
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Horv?th-Militicsi Attila
<6hunyadi at eunet.yu> wrote:
> Dear Walter
>
> Could you tell me please, at which stage is the implementation of my manuals
> of professional French into your laptops ? I am now working to finish as
> soon as possible the third of one from the 4 planned.
> Amically yours
> Attila Horvath-Militicsi from Novi Sad, Serbia
> email: 6hunyadi at eunet.yu website: http://www.6hunyadi-fle.org/HMA
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> > 1. Re: [Localization] code comments? (Edward Cherlin)
> > 2. Sugar mtg April 08 2008 (Simon Schampijer)
> > 3. xulrunner beta5 in sugar-jhbuild (Simon Schampijer)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 01:56:15 -0700
> > From: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [sugar] [Localization] code comments?
> > To: "Walter Bender" <walter at laptop.org>
> > Cc: Sugar Mailing List <sugar at lists.laptop.org>, Localization mailing
> > list <localization at lists.laptop.org>
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> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Walter Bender <walter at laptop.org> wrote:
> >> It may become an important feature over time, such as when we have
> >> Quechua support and want to fall back to Spanish before falling back
> >> to English, but I wouldn't think it is a priority in any of our
> >> current deployments.
> >
> > Current target countries
> >
> > Haiti: Krey?l/French/English
> > Rwanda: Kinyarwanda/English/French
> > Cambodia: Khmer/French/English
> > Afghanistan: Dari/Pashto/English, Pashto/Dari/Russian/English,
> > Pashto/Urdu/English, Dari/Tajik/English, Hazara/Dari/English...
> > Mongolia: Mongolian/Russian/English or Mongolian/English/Russian.
> > Later on a choice between Mongolian (Cyrillic) and Mongolian
> > (Traditional) will complicate matters further.
> > US: English/Spanish, English/French, English/Chinese, English/Italian,
> > English/Korean, English/Vietnamese,...
> >
> > Other possibilities
> >
> > Nigeria: any combination of Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, English and others
> > Brazil: Portuguese (Brazil)/Portuguese/English/Spanish, among other
> > possibilities
> > India: Any combination of more than 20 official languages, plus other
> > world languages
> >
> > Me:
> > English/French/German/Russian/Spanish/Yiddish/Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Swahili
> >
> > You can't decide for your users what they want. It is best to let them
> > choose. I don't say that you have to allow 10 choices, as in my
> > example, but four or five is quite common. My grandfather spoke
> > Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Yiddish, and later in life English, and
> > knew a fair amount of Hebrew and some Aramaic. They do say that the
> > correct English word for a person who speaks multiple languages is
> > "polyglot", and the correct English word for a person who speaks only
> > one language is "American".
> >
> >> -walter
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Very interesting, I guess we should integrate it in the language
> >> > section of the control panel. AFAIK, this is not being considered
> >> yet.
> >> >
> >> > If we don't want to add more complexity to the control panel UI, we
> >> > may assign under the hoods a fallback language to every language?
> >
> > No. Too many possibilities, not enough information.
> >
> >> > Perhaps someone from deployment could comment on the better milestone
> >> > to target this?
> >> >
> >> > Tomeu
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Bert Freudenberg
> >> <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> >> > > Interesting, thanks. Are there any plans to make use of this
> >> feature
> >> > > in deployments?
> >> > >
> >> > > - Bert -
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On 05.04.2008, at 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >> > > > Yes, by setting LANGUAGE env variable with a fall back language,
> >> > > > some thing
> >> > > > like "LANGUAGE=ur_PK:fa_IR:ar", you can specify multiple fall
> >> back
> >> > > > languages.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:31:30AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg
> >> wrote:
> >> > > >> ... which reminds me: Is it possible in gettext to fall back on
> >> a
> >> > > >> language other than English when a translation for some phrase
> >> cannot
> >> > > >> be found? That would be a useful feature I think, as long as
> >> there
> >> > > >> are
> >> > > >> programs that are not fully translated (which will happen very
> >> > > >> often).
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >> - Bert -
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
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> >>
> >> --
> >> Walter Bender
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> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:18:25 +0200
> > From: Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
> > Subject: [sugar] Sugar mtg April 08 2008
> > To: Sugar List <sugar at laptop.org>
> > Message-ID: <47FB5481.8000605 at schampijer.de>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > In today's meeting we will review eben's sugar todo list:
> >
> > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-April/004909.html
> >
> > and discuss some parts like the 'AlertBox' in detail.
> >
> > See you,
> > Simon
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:06:53 +0200
> > From: Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
> > Subject: [sugar] xulrunner beta5 in sugar-jhbuild
> > To: Sugar List <sugar at laptop.org>
> > Message-ID: <47FB5FDD.6070302 at schampijer.de>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have updated sugar-jhbuild to use the xulrunner beta 5 sources
> > http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/04/02/firefox-3-beta-5-now-available-for-download/
> >
> > It passed the buildbot test as well:
> > http://iorich.caltech.edu:8014/A/builds/203
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > Simon
> >
> >
> >
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