Hi Christian! I am pretty bummed that there's no work initiated on the Hindi front. I'd like to give it some of my time. I guess once the project gets started people might show some interest. Can you please activate Hindi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've read the page mentioned by you. I'll need some help getting started since I don't have a vernacular keyboard.
Rahul Jadhav --- Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (reply set to -boot mailing list...feel free to > forward this > everywhere you may think appropriate....as long as > you point people > back to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > We need YOU! :-) > > The Debian Installer currently supports 38 languages > including > English (26 100% translated in beta3 and 12 under > work or completed > since beta3 release). See list at the end of this > mail. > > The list grew up partly because of some DD or other > contributors > giving enough interest for their own language and > partly because some > of us tried to find resources for doing translation > work in some other > "important" languages. > > "Important" here means that these languages have a > wide population in > the world....or that they are used in places where > Open Source > operating systems have a good development currently > or in the > future....or that they're important enough for > someone somewhere > caring for having the Debian installation system > transalted to it. > > In this mail subject, I mentioned a few languages > which I'm pretty > sure at least some Debian developers or users are > native speakers. > > A lot other languages are a good target however. > Let's give a list: > > -Serbian > -Croatian > -Latvian > -Estonian > -Belarussian > -Moldavian > -Icelandic > > (with these, we would cover whole Europe, I think) > > -Hindi (or whatever people from India will feel most > appropriate > besides English) > > -Afrikaans (some contact by DPL and myself, but no > news since then) > or Xhosa > > -Vietnamese > -Thai > -Farsi (often called Persian) > > > And this is no limitation, of course ! > > If you happen to have some skills in one of these > languages and some > free time to share with the Debian community, feel > free to contact > either myself privately, or the debian-boot mailing > list. > > You will receive all possible technical help so > don't be afraid and > start with the following document: > > http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/d-i/trunk/installer/doc/translations.txt > > > Currently supported languages (Arabic and Hebrew > need backend work on > BIDI support, though): > > ar Arabic > bg Bulgarian > bs Bosnian > ca Catalan > cs Czech > cy Welsh > da Danish > de German > el Greek > en English > es Spanish > eu Basque > fi Finnish > fr French > gl Gallegan > he Hebrew > hu Hungarian > id Indonesian > it Italian > ja Japanese > ko Korean > lt Lithuanian > nb Norwegian Bokmal > nl Dutch > nn Norwegian Nynorsk > pl Polish > pt Portuguese > pt_BR Portuguese (brazil) > ro Romanian > ru Russian > sk Slovakian > sl Slovenian > sq Albanese > sv Swedish > tr Turkish > uk Ukrainian > zh_CN Chinese (Simplified) > zh_TW Chinese (Traditional) > > -- > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
