Ubuntu 6.06 Documentation Ready to Translate

[Øivind Hoel]

On 4/12/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Removing a couple of mailing lists (-translators will be enough)

Sorry, combining gmails list-ignorance with my own is a horrible idea ;]

>
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 01:39 +0200, Øivind Hoel wrote:
> > On 4/10/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > At last the official documentation for Ubuntu and Kubuntu 6.06 is ready
> > > for translation. There is an enormous amount of material for translation
> > > this time round, so you will have you work cut out translating it all!
> > >
> > > The translations are available in Rosetta at the following address:
> > >
> > > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/ubuntu-docs/+translations
> > > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/kubuntu-docs/+translations
>
> > I just have one single gripe about the actual doc; the part where
> > users are told they can easily "sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop".
> > Shouldn't there be a reference to Synaptic, or even be a quick tool
> > (say, in gnome-app-install) to do this? I'm just worried that
> > displaying a command-line command in the midst of all the
> > "easy-buzzwords" is sending a mixed message...
>
> Which doc is this? Wherebouts is the string? You're probably right. If
> you tell me soonish I will try and fix it.

Sorry, this is in the "about ubuntu" template, specifically
C/about-ubuntu.xml:207(para) (string 57 in rosetta).

>
> > Another thing, if I want to use quotes in my translation (and there
> > isn't one in the english text), will I have to use " or will a
> > simple " be fine?
>
> Using " is the safest way to do this. Here are some more common
> symbols:
>
> & if you want an "&"
> > if you want an >
> < if you want an <
>

Okay, what initially got me wondering about this was that you
mentioned > in the initial posting, while I came across a
non-encoded entity for quotes in  	C/about-ubuntu.xml:93(para). Wasn't
quite sure how you were going to handle translations and/or if the
quotes showing up as " instead of " in rosetta is a bug there.

> Thanks,
>
> Matt
> --
> mdke at ubuntu.com
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