Javier Fernandez-Sanguino spake unto us the following wisdom: > 2010/7/25 John Bailey <[email protected]>: > > On 07/25/2010 08:32 AM, David Woolley wrote: > >> Then submit enough translations of the text in the installer to push it > >> above 50%. > > > > David is correct--if you translate more than half of the Windows Installer > > strings in your .po file, then the language will be an available option in > > the > > installer language selector. Selecting a language there will cause Pidgin > > to > > run in the selected language. > > Quite sincerely, this new policy is IMHO quite absurd. Even though the > nsis installer text might not be fully translated the overall PO > statistics for Spanish were quite high (IIRC over a 90% update ratio). > Which means the program *was* translated almost fully even if the > installer strings were not.
I think maybe you're confused about exactly what happened. The
translated .po file for Pidgin itself *was* included in the install.
It is selectable from the installer, and Pidgin can be run in Spanish
with no difficulties. The *only* thing which is not translated is the
installer itself. Spanish is not disabled. No registry hackage is
required.
Now, I haven't seen this installer myself, but it does appear that
it's hard to tell this for some reason. I don't know why.
> I'm not a Windows users myself, and the few times I use Pidgin in
> Windows I upgrade the client (which explains why I hadn't seen this
> issue). In the Spanish case, this policy results in not providing a
> translation that is actually quite complete for the *program* which
> results in less Spanish-speaking users using the program itself and,
> in the long term, means less userbase for Pidgin. In the long term,
> this is actually bad for Pidgin.
Again, this is untrue, I think there has been a misunderstanding.
Ethan
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