Problems with language-pack-nds

[Nils-Christoph Fiedler]

*Hi Martin,*

thank you for answering my email! your right with the urgency of the 
displayed name, but it would be nice anyway, if someone could change 
this name into "German, Low" instead of "Saxon, Low". We're using the 
right expression "Low German" or "German, Low" on gnome.org and 
launchpad also as you can see
here: http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/nds
and here: https://launchpad.net/~lp-l10n-nds
or here: http://nds.sourceforge.net/en.html

Its just, because it is the right translation and in there were some 
misunderstandings in the past with the phrase "Saxon" (for the German 
"Sächsisch"), which is in deed not a language but simply a German 
dialect, located in the east of Germany. (as you know as a German :-) )
And with "Saxon" (Sächsisch), Low German (Niederdeutsch / nds) has 
nothing to do!

I have attached a screenshot of the related parts and underlined what I 
found. But this concern all nds-packs on ubuntu.com.

Thanks again & kind regards,
Nils

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Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Nils,
>
> Nils-Christoph Fiedler [2009-11-15 15:53 +0100]:
>   
>> I am the coordinator of Low German translations (nds) on gnome.org
>> and launchpad and I have got a question concerning these
>> language-pack-nds packs on ubuntu.com.
>> The packages here for example:
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/karmic/language-pack-nds
>> are entirely empty!
>>     
>
> That's okay. This is an "update package" which are empty by design for
> a final release. The -base package has all the translations:
>
>   http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/karmic/language-pack-nds-base
>
> Please see 
>
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/TranslationLifecycle
>
> for details.
>
>   
>> Also we have a little problem with the name "Low Saxon", that is
>> used for this language, because the official name in English is "Low
>> German" and _not_ "Low Saxon"! Translated into German, "Low Saxon"
>> would mean "Niedersächsisch", but that is completely wrong, because
>> the language is called "Niederdeutsch" correctly, what in English
>> means "Low German"!
>>     
>
> Where is that displayed? We can easily fix the package descriptions,
> but I guess those are the least concern?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>   

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