[Live-demo] Language support for the Live Project

[Alex Mandel]

All the language options I listed are available for the system (Xubuntu
menus etc). Anyone have a little time to cross reference the list with
project translation lists.

I agree for our documentation that Spanish would be a good start, and
I'm not really concerned about it for this release. Next release we can
really focus on getting all the docs translated as a major feature
(Since the rate of new software should be slowing).

Thanks,
Alex

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Regarding picking languages for the LiveDVD,
> 
> My suggestion is that we include the languages for which there are
> translations in the packages, and the live DVD.
> 
> I have a list of OSGeo translators from FOSS4G who I can ask for help
> from, once we have decided what should be translated.
> 
> As FOSS4G is in Spain this year, I think we should start with Spanish.
> 
> I think this release 3.0 we should consider translations experimental
> (mainly because our documentation is pretty crappy in English and needs
> be cleaned up before we put in huge efforts into translation). So it
> would probably be wise to only focus on one language initially, unless
> one of our translators is prepared to burn lots of time.
> 
> Alex Mandel wrote:
>> So I've managed to get language packs installed. Oddly while the menu
>> titles in xfce-panel don't seem to change the menu in them is definately
>> in the correct language based on login (I've tested QGIS with German and
>> Spanish so far).
>>
>> Adding 18 language packs took about 129 MB but I'm not sure if the gnome
>> language packs are needed too or the spelling dictionaries. Of course
>> picking which languages to support is now the real challenge. So far I
>> went directly with a list off wikipedia of the most # of speakers in the
>> world. I went all the way to 20 but a few of them don't have language
>> packs in Ubuntu.
>>
>> This list long term should lead us towards finding translators for our
>> help files and all the apps (assuming they aren't already translated).
>>
>> There seem to be 2 other alternate ways to pick though.
>> 1. based on OSGeo chapter languages
>> 2. based on the languages the OSGeo site supposedly supports
>> translations for.
>>
>> Here are the comparative lists, if we had to cut it to 10 languages
>> which would you pick?
>>
>> # of Speakers:
>>   sp \ #Spanish
>>   en \ #English
>>   hi \ #Hindi/Urdu
>>   ar \ #Arabic
>>   bn \ #Bengali
>>   pt \ #Portuguese
>>   ru \ #Russian
>>   ja \ #Japanese
>>   de \ #German
>>   jv \ #Javanese - no language pack
>>   pa \ #Punjabi pa
>> # no language code for Wu may not be a written language
>>   fr \ #French
>>   te \ #Telugu
>>   vi \ #Vietnamese
>>   mr \ #Marathi
>>   ko \ #Korean
>>   ta \ #Tamil
>>   it \ #Italian
>>   tr \ #Turkish
>>
>> OSGeo Chapters:
>> Finnish
>> Greek
>> Hebrew
>> Polish
>> Romanian
>> Thai
>> English
>> Spanish
>> Portuguese
>> Italian
>> Japanese
>> Chinese
>> French
>> Hindi
>>
>> OSGeo Site:
>>     * English
>>     * Български (Russian?)
>>     * 简体中文 (Chinese?)
>>     * Deutsch German
>>     * Français French
>>     * Indonesian
>>     * Italiano Itialian
>>     * 日本語 (One of these is Japanese?)
>>     * 한국어 Korean
>>     * Nederlands Dutch
>>     * Polski Polish
>>     * Portuguese (Brazilian)
>>     * Русский Greek?
>>     * Español Spanish
>>     * Türkçe Turkish
>>
>>
>> Thanks,Danke,Gracias, etc,
>> Alex
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