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[Barret Dolph <white129@ms7.hinet.net>]

In so far as I was volunteered to run the translation project I have
decided that a quick outline of what I am doing is in order.

I would like to set a site where one can access the following information:

• Suggestions for programmers on how to help the translator. Example: it is generally assumed that a good translation of an app. is to replace english with x language. This is quite frustrating to us, at least in Asia, because we would like to replace English with English and x language.
• What programs have local versions.
• The quality of the above mentioned translation and programming.
• The site would be arranged language-wise. That is you could look at what is available in x-language rather than what languages x program can support.
• A list of key documents which should be in as many languages as possible. (HINT! I NEED HELP HERE.)

Any problems with current language support or knowledge of programs which work well with language support should be forwarded to me. My goal is to have this site up somewhere around the beginning to middle of January.

Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Headmaster
White Horse English
Development Center
Taipei Taiwan

Roman Suzi wrote:

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Barret Dolph wrote:

>Agree with no esperanto. At least in Taiwan, most try to develop fluency in
>Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, and English.
>
>We would like to develop a translation center here. What we could use is a list
>of key documents which should be translated. That is, the translation work is
>not difficult. What is difficult is knowing what to translate. Would it be

Yes. And we need also keep  in  mind  that  translators  aren't
necessary IT specialists!

So,  there  must  be  some  clear  format  to  them   to   fill
translations in.

>feasible to have a list of documents which have a high priority for translation.
>Any ideas on this?

I can only add that I can help prepare russian translations for
the programs developed in  SEUL-EDU.  (english-->russian,  that
is)

Of   course,   programs   must    support    some    kind    of
internationalisation techniques.

BTW, does anybody know  what  is  the  best  approach  to  make
programs easier localizable in Linux?

When I tried to follow locale howto I failed:  it  just  didn't
work... locale support is different in different  libraries  in
use: glibc2 and libc5.

Any ideas?

Sincerely yours,
Roman A. Suzi

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