On 6/13/18 5:02 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 01:56:06PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> >> >> On 6/12/18 1:53 PM, Stefan Ring wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> In all seriousness, if you would like to update the translations that would >>>> be great. The Polish translation is the only one that receives regular >>>> updates today. >>> >>> I've looked into it, but this seems to me like a gargantuan task >>> because there is so much internal inconsistency that I wouldn't even >>> know where to start. "Extent" for example: sometimes this is >>> translated as "Erweiterung" (nonsense, that's extension). Sometimes >>> it's left verbatim. This is what I'd be leaning towards as well. Other >>> times, it got translated as "Ausmaß", which in another context is in >>> fact a translation for "extent" (as in: the extent of a catastrophy), >>> but makes no sense here. Also "Bereich" and "Umfang" are used >>> sometimes, of which only the former makes a slight bit of sense. That >>> in addition to my general under-appreciation of low-level technical >>> translation. They are usually much less comprehensible and the >>> gibberish needs to be translated back anyway in order to any sense of, >>> apart from the fact that the original text is searchable, in stark >>> contrast to the translation. >> >> Thanks for looking. >> >> Is the German translation bad/embarrassing enough that it should just >> be removed? Does it do more harm than good at this point? > > Don't distro's have internationalisation teams precisely for doing > translations of packages? If so, shouldn't we be asking for those > teams to do translation work? Sorta? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Translate_on_Zanata https://fedora.zanata.org We could try to pursue that, but it currently has very few packages on its "priority" list (anaconda, etc) -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
