Report on Hoary 5.04 installation

[Xan]

Dijous 14 Abril 2005 14:21, en/na Colin Watson (<Colin Watson 
<cjwatson at ubuntu.com>>) va escriure:
>>Re: Report on Hoary 5.04 installation
>
> 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,

Okay. Thanks for the answer.
I will search the translator of apt-get and I will notify him this typo error.

Regards,
Xan.


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> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]