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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Subject: Localization of language names
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:44:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kmzr4u7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10d0d175-3849-4b28-1136-2ce1e7bf45b2@brendan.scot> (Brendan Tildesley's message of "Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:23:30 +1100")

Hi,

Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot> skribis:

> Languages listed in the language selection are sometimes in English,
> Rarely in the native language.

We take language names and their translations from the ‘iso-codes’
package, specifically the “iso_639-3” message catalog.  Quoth
(gnu installer newt locale):

    (lambda (language)
      (let ((english (language-code->language-name iso639-languages
                                                   language)))
        (setenv "LANGUAGE" language)
        (let ((native (gettext english "iso_639-3")))
          (unsetenv "LANGUAGE")
          native)))

I think this is the most exhaustive translation out there and what
everybody uses AIUI.

Do you see better translations in, say, the Debian or Ubuntu installers?

If so, that could indicate we’re doing something wrong, such as using
the wrong message catalog.

Thanks,
Ludo’.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-12 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-11  6:23 Call for 1.2 installer testing Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-11  9:48 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-10-11 20:32 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-10-11 20:36   ` Marinus Savoritias
2020-10-11 23:40   ` Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-13  6:47   ` Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-13  6:50   ` Brendan Tildesley
2020-10-12 12:44 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-10-17 11:46   ` Localization of language names Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-21 13:26     ` Ludovic Courtès

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