Translations waiting approval

Jennifer Ockwell jenfraggleubuntu at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 17 08:01:37 UTC 2008


At least there is an option of proper English through the translations.
Normally we get American and that's all.

On 16/01/2008, Peter Clifton <pcjc2 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 01:20 +0700, Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> > Peter C.J. Clifton wrote:
> > Definitely.  As a rule, only include the country where the country is
> > not the "default" country for the language.  So pt_BR is fine, but pt_PT
> > becomes pt.
>
> Ok, I've uploaded a new tarball with our latest checked in translations
> from our git repository, but fixed the file-names of the .po file where
> the country code matches the default.
>
> I'm sorry to note that I'm now stuck in the waiting queue for review
> again... I thought the message on the import page implied that this
> review process was just for the project's first upload of files!
>
> (If I had realised, I would have deleted the previous translations from
> the upload queue and updated with these many days ago)
>
> > The exceptions are Chinese (zh_CN is Simplified whereas zn_TW is
> > Traditional) and English (U.S. English is the starting language, and
> > en_GB is its translation to U.K. English).
>
> Thanks for the explanation. As an English person (from England), it is
> slightly disheartening to see en_US being the default.. but I guess that
> complaint should have been made to some international standards body who
> agreed all these details!
>
> Best wishes,
>
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