i18n support as a requirement for user-visible applications in Ubuntu (was Re: Wubi status)

Alexander Sack asac at ubuntu.com
Mon Mar 2 13:06:30 GMT 2009


On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:29:47AM +0000, Evan Dandrea wrote:
> I'm moving this to ubuntu-devel so we can have a full discussion.
> 
> To add necessary context, I originally said the following:
> 
> I'm not sure how official this is, it does not appear to be in the
> Ubuntu Policy package (Colin, should it be?  Shall I file a bug?), but
> you'll want to make proper gettext support a very high priority, given
> that Lars and myself took a lot of heat from the community for
> uploading system-cleaner and usb-creator without i18n support
> initially.
> 
> This blog post [1] implies that this was being considered as a
> requirement for new software, but as mentioned I cannot find official
> record of it, so I'm assuming that hasn't happened yet.

IMO, using gettext should be easy enough to add to everything
that claims to be beyond a prototyping state; doesn't sound too picky
for me to add that as a general NEW requirement.

 - Alexander




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