From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Re: Naming, hacking, and policies Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 02:07:47 +0200 Message-ID: <874l7id1v0.fsf@nckx> References: <875zs3pg5b.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87wokhhj8n.fsf@nckx> <20190329151636.GA5681@jurong> <87wokh638t.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <502f27e8-00e7-8ca1-ba36-13d539b9eca3@zoho.com> <87imvzyp7t.fsf@gnu.org> <35445297-9d2b-5b0a-241a-63f9193d77fb@zoho.com> <878swuzsy8.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hAkUe-0001zm-Ki for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:08:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hAkUd-0001GN-Hf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:08:04 -0400 In-reply-to: <878swuzsy8.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ludo', Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > sirgazil skribis: >> Oh yeah, I'm not suggesting to translate "system names", but=20 >> have both >> "system names" and "pretty names", and only the latter would be >> internationalized :) > > But even that is not really feasible: often there=E2=80=99s no =E2=80=9Cp= retty=20 > name=E2=80=9D, > sometimes there=E2=80=99s one that=E2=80=99s not translatable (=E2=80=9CG= NU grep=E2=80=9D?=20 > =E2=80=9CScribus=E2=80=9D?). Translation doesn't *mandate* mangling. The French name for GNU=20 grep is presumably just GNU grep, not la greppe GNU. And if an upstream name isn't =E2=80=98pretty=E2=80=99 (which is why I don'= t like=20 this subjective term and prefer DISPLAY-NAME or what even ever),=20 we can just omit it & display its NAME everywhere, no? Kind regards, T G-R --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQT12iAyS4c9C3o4dnINsP+IT1VteQUCXKFWUwAKCRANsP+IT1Vt eRMQAQDy7JCtJZiNlSmFmfnQS0cWe7I0PIlDPZ9DjDLexDXHPQD8C7z10q28z5L9 WUNb9i2ONwQbzgQU6JeOvQFTntIZhAU= =ssSI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--