[QGIS-Developer] Concerns about translations and QGIS overall credibility

Ian Turton ijturton at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 02:57:05 PDT 2020


On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 10:40, Bo Victor Thomsen <bo.victor.thomsen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear developers:
>
> As a former translator of the Danish version of QGIS I have a few - very
> personal, perhaps a bit caustic - comments:
>
>    - Create a group or list of highly technical GIS related terms that is
>    *not* to be translated. There is a lot of GIS terms that is English in
>    origin, but haven't a well defined local translation. (With some hilarious
>    results if they are translated). Not all translators is well versed in
>    every aspect of GIS.
>
>
>
Is this something that OSGEO can help to oversee and/or maintain as I
suspect that this list would be useful across many projects.

Ian

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Ian Turton
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