I have joined the Document Foundation with the username "urdulizer" to work for the localization of LibreOffice in Urdu Language.
But I am surprised and disappointed to see that the name of the Fourth Most Spoken language of the world is NOT included in the Languages List. I request the administrators to kindly take steps to include Urdu in the languages list. Thank you so much. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Freek de Kruijf <f.de.kru...@gmail.com>wrote: > On zondag 5 februari 2012 15:32:42 Urdu Localizer wrote: > > Yes, you are right about Hindi and Urdu, as both occur "mostly" in the > same > > geographical region. But, I think when it comes to save time, I would > > prefer to use Google Translate for English > Urdu translation rather than > > Hindi > Urdu translation. And this is because I think if go for Hindi > > > Urdu translation, it will be in-fact > > English > Hindi > Urdu. > > I think you are getting my point that I do not want to go for a "second > or > > third level" translation. I want to translate directly from the > root-level > > language. > > When using Pootle you can choose to have another language visible on the > page > with the text you are working on. So you can use both English and the Hindi > translation to make the translation to Urdu. You can either copy the > English > text or the Hindi text or even part of it. > > My extra language, when translating from English to Dutch, is German. > > -- > fr.gr. > > Freek de Kruijf > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
