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Greetings, i18n list. I have a few questions about how things related to
storage should be translated. I have a few situations where I would like
to know how a non-English speaker (and in particular a speaker of a
language that uses non-Latin characters) would expect something to be
displayed, and how they expect something to be input.
1: Partition labels.
For display, consider the following screen:
http://dshea.fedorapeople.org/storage_i18n/es_format_summary.png Should
anything in the type ("Tipo" in this image) column be translated? Things
like "partition", "physical volume", "BIOS Boot", "EFI System
Partition". Some of these strings also represent names that are written
to the partition table for disk labels that support it. Would you expect
these strings to be localized or would they all be in English? Would a
system with a non-English firmware display something like "EFI System
Partition," or would it be a localized string?
2: Partition sizes
If you want to create a partition that's 500MB, how would you input that
size? How would you expect it to be displayed?
Here's a couple of images in Kazakh since it's non Latin and happens to
have translations in blivet:
http://dshea.fedorapeople.org/storage_i18n/kk_size_input.jpg
http://dshea.fedorapeople.org/storage_i18n/kk_size_display.jpg
Would you expect sizes to be displayed as the localized МБ, or would you
expect "MB"? How would you expect to be able to input the size? Should
it be able to accept both localized and English sizes?
Related to that, the localized "МБ" and other strings are built by
concatenating the translation of "M" for mega- with the translation of
"B" for byte. Is that problematic? What would be the correct to handle it?
Thank you for your help.
David Shea
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