Translation of Rosetta interface into Russian

[Matthew East]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 21:41 +0400, Igor Zubarev wrote:
> 
> 
>         > Russian translators have much questions about work with
>         Rosetta. 
>         > It will be better to translate Rosetta interface to Russian
>         to avoid much
>         > questions.
>         
>         There is not much point in this at the moment, because
>         translating in
>         Rosetta requires good knowledge of English anyway.
> 
> Sorry.  I  don't  think  so.  I  think ALL interfaces must be in
> native languages.
> Including Rosetta. If it is't true there is no point in translating
> Ubuntu. 
> Because Linux "requires good knowledge of English anyway." 

You've misunderstood my point. Rosetta is a translation tool. As such,
using it, by definition, requires knowledge of at least two languages.
At the moment, at least one of those languages has to be English. That
may change in the future, but for now, there is no pressing need, in my
opinion, to make the interface available in other languages. It would be
nice, but it is not a very important feature, at least in my opinion.

*Ubuntu* does not and should not require good knowledge of English,
indeed one of the fundamental philosophies of Ubuntu is making software
available in the user's native language. That is a completely different
thing, because you can use Ubuntu to do lots of things which should only
require knowing one language.

> I think Rosseta must have Russian FAQ because there will be a lot of
> other projects.
> Not only Ubuntu.

Right, but at the moment the main Rosetta FAQ is on the Ubuntu wiki, I
think (I may be wrong, I haven't checked carefully).

Matt
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