Derivative language support

[Jordi Mallach]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 02:36:14AM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> How does Rosetta handle derivative languages? For instance, there are many 
> derivatives of en_GB, like en_AU, en_NZ, en_IN and en_ZA. It would make a lot 
> of sense to have those translations as a template that overlays the main 
> en_GB translation. That way, they can benefit from the main en_GB effort and 
> only alter their translations in the small places where they diverge.

In short, we don't handle it yet. We really want to, though.

https://features.launchpad.net/products/rosetta/+spec/similar-languages
is our spec to get this done.

This other one is somewhat related, and covers supporting variant
translations like sr at Latn or ca at valencia.
https://features.launchpad.net/products/rosetta/+spec/language-variants-support

I'm aware the details for these specs are not public. Carlos, do you
think we can get permission to publish these two somewhere else so
the English team can have a look and tell us what they think?

> We have already started an initiative to do this:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation

Wow, greasemonkey. This is pretty neat. :)

Jordi
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