How much work is a translation/localization

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Tue May 2 10:44:34 UTC 2023


hi,
Am Dienstag, dem 02.05.2023 um 10:50 +0200 schrieb Carsten Agger:
> I'd like to understand how much work it would take to localize Ubuntu
> into a completely new language where no volunteers were available but
> commercial translation is.
> 
> How much work would it be to translate the standard edition of Ubuntu
> with all pre-installed programs? In terms of hours or weeks? How many
> words?
> 
> I'm trying to see how I might arrive at an estimate. It would, of 
> course, also be necessary to do technical work like creating new 
> language packages.
> 
you should try contacting the translatios via their public channels:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/contribute-to-translation-and-localisation/33970
ciao
	oli

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