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Subject: Re: Naming, hacking, and policies
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:31:43 +0200
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sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> skribis:

> El 31/03/19 a las 11:37 a. m., Ludovic Court=C3=A8s escribi=C3=B3:
>> Hi sirgazil,
>>
>> sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> skribis:
>>
>>> I don't know exactly what should be done in Guix, though, but I think
>>> having a "system name" and a "pretty name" that is translatable could
>>> help a little bit.
>>
>> It=E2=80=99s a tricky topic indeed (and not specific to Guix).
>>
>> There are i18n and accessibility (a11n) issues, I agree.  The problem is
>> that those =E2=80=9Csystem names=E2=80=9D are essentially identifiers, p=
retty much like
>> Unix command names.  Sometimes they=E2=80=99re abbreviations of common E=
nglish
>> names, sometimes they=E2=80=99re proper names, etc.  So not all of them =
are
>> subject to translation.  I think they should really be treated like
>> identifiers in programming languages or command names.
>
>
> Oh yeah, I'm not suggesting to translate "system names", but 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=9Cpre=
tty name=E2=80=9D,
sometimes there=E2=80=99s one that=E2=80=99s not translatable (=E2=80=9CGNU=
 grep=E2=80=9D?  =E2=80=9CScribus=E2=80=9D?).

Ludo=E2=80=99.