On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 14:47, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Supporting additional languages is certainly desirable, but beware > that it is a never-ending labour: every time a new message is added, > it must be translated into all supported languages, and ideally that > means that some native (or *very* fluent) speaker of each of these > languages must do it again and again. OTOH when a new feature is added > to the source, its author should also write a test battery for it, and > (once bugs are ironed out) that's that. > > Best regards, > Tony.
I sort of assumed that most translations (messages etc) were quite static and did not change much over time, based on this response I take it that this is not true? On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 17:21, Dominique Pellé <[email protected]> wrote: > > You're welcome to contribute to translations. > > I'm curious which language(s) you're considering contributing to. > Some languages have active maintainers, but even active > maintainers can appreciate help. > > You can have a look at those resources which can be translated: > > src/po/*.po (vim messages) > runtime/tutor/* (tutorials) > runtime/doc/*.1 (man pages) > runtime/lang/menu*.vim (GUI menu items) > nsis/lang/*nsi (Windows installer) > > Regards > Dominique We come from China, Lithuania, Netherlands and Iceland and were planning to focus on each of our native languages but maybe we should focus on the "bigger" languages in Chinese (Mandarin) and Dutch instead of trying to add 50% of the translations for Icelandic and Lithuanian? Jón Arnar -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
