On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 16:54, Alexandre Franke <afra...@gnome.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 5:48 PM Emmanuele Bassi via gnome-i18n > <gnome-i18n@gnome.org> wrote: > > Hi all; > > Hi, > > > these are location names that did not exist in the database, so are > effectively newly translatable strings—but they are physical places, so > they can be left untranslated without any particular loss. > > Let’s call this a break request and here is approval 1/2. > I can revert at no particular loss. I honestly didn't really know the current status of the locations database with regards to translation. I mostly inherited the existing infrastructure, but there's no actual documentation on its contents and/or rules. > > As a side note: I'm not entirely sure most of the locations in the > libgweather database need to be translated in the first, so it would be > nice to have a discussion with the i18n teams at large, to see if we can > reduce the amount of translatable strings for the next cycle. > > I’m not sure I see the logic behind that. What makes you think > translations are not needed? A speaker of a given language surely has > a better chance of knowing a place by their localised names, don’t > they? Well, it depends. Translating "Somewhere Airport" is likely needed, but translating the name of a city isn't exactly what I'd consider necessary. There's also the issue that not everything is marked as translatable *today*, for no apparent reason. Of course, as Yuri pointed out: > Just my 2 cents. Surely, they are not translated, but commonly transliterated > (Cyrillic, Greek, CJK scripts). Please leave them translatable. transliteration is a perfectly valid use case. In any case, as I said: I wanted to open the floor to the discussion, not ask permission for the removal. Also, locations are using a separate domain, so it’s easy to > just translate `po` and leave `locations` out. > Sure, but at the end of the day you are still getting those strings counted towards the overall coverage. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com]
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