Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

[sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>]

El 31/03/19 a las 3:31 p. m., Ludovic Courtès escribió:
> sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> skribis:
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>> El 31/03/19 a las 11:37 a. m., Ludovic Courtès escribió:
>>> Hi sirgazil,
>>>
>>> sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> skribis:
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>>>> 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’s a tricky topic indeed (and not specific to Guix).
>>>
>>> There are i18n and accessibility (a11n) issues, I agree.  The problem is
>>> that those “system names” are essentially identifiers, pretty much like
>>> Unix command names.  Sometimes they’re abbreviations of common English
>>> names, sometimes they’re 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.
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>>
>> 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’s no “pretty name”,
> sometimes there’s one that’s not translatable (“GNU grep”?  “Scribus”?).


Hmm, true.

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