Hallo 2009/8/13 Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle <leonar...@gnome.org>: > The menu standards discussion reminded me of something I wish I asked > here a long time ago. Let's consider "Eye of GNOME" / "Image Viewer" as > an example. > > "Eye of GNOME" is without a doubt a proper name. When it is translated, > what do maintainers expect: actual translation ("Olho do GNOME") or > transliteration only?
With regards to this question I am a little torn. Sometimes, when it is possible to make a nice translation I think it can be fine to do so, but on the other hand it does not reaaly make much sense to translate names and having a policy about it makes it simpler for the user to figure out as well, so I agree with Claude. Regards Kenneth Nielsen > > And "Image Viewer", can it be considered a proper name? If it's not a > proper name, why is it capitalized as such? In Portuguese we translate > proper names with initial caps ("Visualizador de Imagens"), and regular > names with only an inicial cap ("Visualizador de imagens"), so that kind > of definition is important for us and possibly for many other languages. > > -- > Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle <leonar...@gnome.org> > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n