Re: Multi-language to be or not to be

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- --On Monday, February 12, 2007 09:50:06 +0100 Magnus Hagander
<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> Would it not be much easier to just check the *dates* on the files? Once
> a file is translated, you commit it. Then it can be considered
> up-to-date up until the point that the base file is newer than the
> translated one (when you change the base file).
>
> You can do this today, but it might certainly help if someone put
> togheter a small script to show it in a nice way. There's not much point
> to that until someone has actually done some translations, though ;-)

There should be some mechanism whereby translators are informed that there have
been changes (ie. pgsql-committers kind of list) ...

> There's also the question of wether it's a good thing to have a say 15%
> translated site, vs a 0% translated one. If we have a 15% translation,
> that will give a very strange impression for people going there with a
> browser set for that language - some pages come up in their language,
> the majority comes up in a completely different language.

You could argue that ppl are doing that now ... they go to a 'language /
regional site' and then have to cut over to the main site in english to read,
say, the docs ...

At least having 15% visible would hopefully encourage work to be done on the
other 85% over time ... whereas right, just getting started might seem a
daunting task ...

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