How much work is a translation/localization of an entire new language?

[Carsten Agger]

Hi Ask


On 5/3/23 17:28, Ask Hjorth Larsen wrote:

> I don't know the exact numbers, but a lot of the content would be from 
> the GNOME desktop environment.
>
> The GNOME desktop user interface [1] contains about 43500 messages 
> with 185.000 words or 1.1 million characters (numbers extracted from 
> English originals).  Not all of GNOME UI needs to be translated in 
> order to achieve a reasonably complete desktop experience -- one 
> should rather assess and prioritize according to some criteria.  Some 
> strings are "GConf" configuration strings not accessible via the 
> normal user interface, and they won't be very high priority.  Also, 
> some GNOME modules are developer tools. With the full UI translated, 
> twice a year we need to update about 2000 messages (maybe a little bit 
> less nowadays?) to keep up with software updates across the GNOME 
> codebase.
>
> There are additional Ubuntu-specific strings on Launchpad such as the 
> installer.  Those would not exceed a few thousand messages AFAIK.  
> Maybe someone knows better.
>
> I hope these figures are helpful.
>
Thanks a lot for your response, it is very helpful! It's enough to start 
ballparking what it would take, which is just what I was looking for.

Best,
Carsten
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