Hi Caty,
On 4 Dec 2017, at 21:49, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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