Report on Hoary 5.04 installation

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:54:10PM +0200, Xan wrote:
> Dimecres 13 Abril 2005 14:59, en/na Colin Watson (<Colin Watson 
> <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>>) va escriure:
> > Catalan translator? What Catalan translator? :-)
> >
> > (Nobody responded to my (admittedly late) call for translations on
> > behalf of Catalan, so many Catalan strings in the installer are fuzzy or
> > untranslated.)
> 
> So there is no official catalan translator? Is that true?
> How do you build a language-pack for catalan?. Simply "joining" all the 
> translation of catalan avaliable in the sytem? [gnome translation, apt 
> translation....]?

People translate to Catalan (and other languages) all over the place,
not just in Ubuntu. We don't have an "official Catalan translator", but
nor do we have an "official translator" for any other language. All our
language packs are built by merging translations from ordinary packages,
which come from a variety of sources.

The installer is fully translated to Catalan in Debian, but nobody has
yet translated the Ubuntu-specific strings in the installer.

> Have we got only two exits? [is it true?]:
> 
> 1) Contacting directly to apt translator of catalan. Who are him/her?

Look it up in the relevant .po file. However, apt translation has
nothing to do with installer translations.

Also, I would like to request you not to randomly mail translators.
Translation takes a lot of time, and so translators should be left to
come forward to translate the projects they care about.

> 2) Changing it manually directly in lang-pack?

The installer does not use language packs.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]