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12.1 Introduction 0
NOTE: This documentation section is outdated and needs to be revised.
Free software is going international! The Translation Project is a way to get maintainers, translators and users all together, so free software will gradually become able to speak many native languages.
The GNU gettext
tool set contains everything maintainers
need for internationalizing their packages for messages. It also
contains quite useful tools for helping translators at localizing
messages to their native language, once a package has already been
internationalized.
To achieve the Translation Project, we need many interested people who like their own language and write it well, and who are also able to synergize with other translators speaking the same language. If you’d like to volunteer to work at translating messages, please send mail to your translating team.
Each team has its own mailing list, courtesy of Linux
International. You may reach your translating team at the address
[email protected]
, replacing ll
by the two-letter ISO 639
code for your language. Language codes are not the same as
country codes given in ISO 3166. The following translating teams
exist:
Chinese
zh
, Czechcs
, Danishda
, Dutchnl
,Esperanto
eo
, Finnishfi
, Frenchfr
, Irishga
, Germande
, Greekel
, Italianit
, Japaneseja
, Indonesianin
, Norwegianno
, Polishpl
, Portuguesept
, Russianru
, Spanishes
, Swedishsv
and Turkishtr
.
For example, you may reach the Chinese translating team by writing to
[email protected]
. When you become a member of the translating team
for your own language, you may subscribe to its list. For example,
Swedish people can send a message to [email protected]
,
having this message body:
subscribe
Keep in mind that team members should be interested in working
at translations, or at solving translational difficulties, rather than
merely lurking around. If your team does not exist yet and you want to
start one, please write to [email protected]
;
you will then reach the coordinator for all translator teams.
A handful of GNU packages have already been adapted and provided
with message translations for several languages. Translation
teams have begun to organize, using these packages as a starting
point. But there are many more packages and many languages for
which we have no volunteer translators. If you would like to
volunteer to work at translating messages, please send mail to
[email protected]
indicating what language(s)
you can work on.
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