5 Dec
2017
5 Dec
'17
9:25 a.m.
Hi Caty,
On 4 Dec 2017, at 21:49, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
<valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think we should add en_GB and en_US to the list of supported
languages or split the translations.
We should definitely not add en_US to l10n since we maintain that one in Git. But note
that en_US is now our officially - by the XWiki core dev team - supported language! :)
(that was the point of this thread).
We should use the convention just when
making decisions on the correctness of words. Also I don't think there are
so many differences that it would justify the split.
I don’t think it’s our call. There’s no reason for us to prevent anyone from being able to
translate xwiki in their language. Second, I think your comment could be viewed as a bit
offensive for some lovers of the british litterature ;) (telling them they should use the
US words because “there aren’t so many differences between both languages”). Third, I dont
really understand your point: It doesn’t cost anything to us (actually it probably costs
us some space on l10n to be precise!).
It’s possible I misunderstood your rationale so please explain more if there’s something I
haven’t understood. Maybe you also missed the fact that anyone from the community would
only need to add translations for the keys that have a different version from the en_US
version one?
I’ll let a few hours for others to comment in case someone else also thinks it’s a bad
idea for some reason.
Thanks
-Vincent
Thanks,
Caty
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
> Thanks to all who answered.
>
> I’ve now documented it at:
> * http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/
> DevelopmentPractices#HGeneral
> * http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/
> UserGuide/Features/I18N
>
> @Thomas: I’ve tried to add a new language by following
> http://l10n.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/L10N/AddALanguage but I couldn’t
> find the page referenced by "Edit the main page of the application.”. Do
> you think you could add en_GB to the list? Also, I think we should mention
> somewhere that the en_US version is maintained in Git by the XWiki Core dev
> team and explain how people could contribute to the en_US version. WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>> On 4 Dec 2017, at 13:35, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> By default the xwiki core committers maintain an “en” version of all
> translations and the other languages are left to the community to maintain
> on l10n.xwiki.org
>>
>> This mail is about deciding if our “en” version is “en_US” or “en_GB”.
>>
>> I propose that we standardize on “en_US”. for example
> ApplicationResources.properties would correspond to en_US.
>>
>> I also propose that we add en_GB on l10n so that the community could
> maintain a UK version if they want (it would fall back to en_US when there
> are no translations, which is a good thing).
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>
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