Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:53:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:53:22 -0500 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]:51610 "EHLO mailout03.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:53:12 -0500 Date: 30 Dec 2001 13:42:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: viro@math.psu.edu cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8FqGN-B1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: State of the new config & build system X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh8 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote on 28.12.01 in : > > Frankly, I find it very amusing that advocates of i18n efforts tend to > > be either British or USAnians. Folks, get real - your languages are > > too close to show where the problems are. I can see how doing that > > gives you a warm fuzzy feeling, but could you please listen to those > > of us who have to deal with the resulting mess for real? > > The biggest advocates I see are from the Middle-East and Japan. We already > have people providing translations for Configure.help in several languages. Once upon a time, I installed the German version of the man pages. Shortly after that, I switched to doing "LANG= man ..." because of exactly the problem Al mentions. But just recently I have been considering going back to the German man pages, because the quality has become *MUCH* better. In fact, it's now obvious they are fairly close translations of the English ones. In short, i18n for Linux has been improving drastically at least in some areas. Of course that won't be the same for all target languages; German is probably one of the best-supported ones because Linux usage in Germany is so heavy. As for Configure.help specifically: it should be fairly easy to do a script which notices when the original of a translation has changed, and possibly either replaces it with the English version, or else does some other more or less intelligent thing about it. MfG Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/