On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 00:03, Gollum wrote: > > hi gimli & everyone > I was reading up on utf8. It seems to be a encoding scheme. And yes thanks > for the good news. Pango suppots bangla. That is somethign I was getting all > hyped out about. I also managed to buy some basic bangla language books. just > to see what could be done. As I said before damn me I can't ever read bangla. > What kind of a bangali am I. anyways > > Let the translations Begin. What we need to do here in this mailing list is > take up pices of code and start translating them. I could pick Nautilus. > Someone else could pick up the interface. Someone to gedit and all. Let's > start translating. I will make a list of pakages that we will translate and > be free to edit the list. and let's split up the work.
well, as far as I understand, there is a definite sequence for translating the stuffs to begin with, you will have to translate the gnome gloassary - which standadises the stuffs that is quite long, and needs to be broken up, and distributed Taneem, Kaushik and all, start looking out for volunteers - i'll post in the Linux Kolkata list for volunteers > > But First is make a list of all words that need to be translated. And find > suitable bangla substitutes for them. The translate online must be updated. > I'll help ritik da there. Make a list of all popular words. HA. > just translate the gnome glossary, thrash things out on the list, and we'll have a standard set of words also, if possible, get some academic people into the list - we need them at this stage > I am on the verge of making some documents online on our action plan. I'll > need to send it to ritwik and atanu. Who will put it up on the web page. > > Ya ya I am getting excited as we speak. Let the grand party begin. Let the > hobbit hole turn up the heat. > > and let's find bugs in pango bangla module and fix it. I can be some help > there. I am still banging my head with the tons of documents i have about > unicode thanks to atanu da. And I really thank him for them they are like a > bible of information some of which seems to be latin. > And ya thanks kaushik. if you really want to damage your head, read the indic OTF specs at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/indicot/default.htm ;) > > and gimli your dwarf axe has come to some real use. Could you send me the po > files of the desktop. > desktop did not need po files the menus and the icons use a different scheme also, if possible, we may try to get together with a Bangla GNU/Linux Localisation conference early next year. ..bye everybody - I have my SAT I tomm.. have a great Durga Pujo.. :) -iti- gimli ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' in the subjectline and body. Archive of this mailing list is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
