Upgrading to Ubuntu 20, *how* to back up?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 22:39, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, branding is always more difficult than it looks, especially when
> you're trying to preserve translations as far as possible, as we (at
> least initially) tried very hard to do in Ubuntu; if you have a
> significant body of complete or nearly-complete translations then you
> want to avoid going back to the translators unnecessarily.
>
> As a result of rebranding the Debian installer for Ubuntu, I developed a
> particularly niche bit of expertise: taking translated text strings in a
> variety of languages that mentioned "Debian" and working out how to make
> them talk about "Ubuntu" instead.  Monoglot Anglophones sometimes don't
> immediately see the problem and think that a quick search-and-replace
> should do the job, but if you consider the difference between "a Debian
> image" and "an Ubuntu image" it should become clear enough.  Lots of
> languages decline proper nouns in various ways: in Finnish the
> possessive form "Debianin" becomes "Ubuntun".  Then you have languages
> that transliterate proper nouns into different scripts: Korean has
> "데비안" for Debian and "우분투" for Ubuntu (with multiple case forms
> for each), while Hebrew has "דביאן" for Debian and "אובונטו" for Ubuntu.
> Doing the substitution in a language you speak is one thing; doing it
> for several dozen languages in bulk when you're only familiar with a few
> of them is quite another.
>
> I'm a bit of a languages nerd anyway, but this wasn't something I
> anticipated needing to know about in early 2004!

Oh my word. I had not thought of that. I have only done a tiny bit of
this but I certainly understand it's not a simple search-and-replace.

I am studying Czech (because I live here) and the cases are
terrifying. Words change length, endings, and the feminine ending in
nominative is the masculine ending in accusative and so on...

So, yes, every instance would need individual attention. :-/

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