Translating manpages

[Clytie Siddall]

To: Debian i18n list, Debian Documentation list
Cc: Rustam Rakhimov, OpenOffice.org Uzbek team
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Hi everyone :)

I've had a query from one of my OpenOffice.org colleagues,  
representing the Uzbek language team. This team is relatively new to  
localization, but very enthusiastic. Since they have started with  
translating OpenOffice.org, and want to go on to manpages, evidently  
no difficulty can stop them! ;)

I did write a page on manpage translation some while ago [1], but I  
haven't been able to find the time to follow it up. I have recommended  
Rustam come to Debian, since Debian is ahead of the field in  
converting manpages to UTF-8, and in providing them in PO format  
(thanks to po4a).

I don't think Debian has an Uzbek team yet. Hopefully Rastam's group  
will be able to expand their activities to our project. :)

Meanwhile, I remember that there was a package of Debian manpages  
available in PO format. Where do we find that, please? Is there any  
specific procedure about translating these docs? Are they all in UTF-8?

Thankyou for your help. :)

from Clytie

Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n

[1] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/guide/project/manpages

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Clytie Siddall (clytie@...):

> I don't think Debian has an Uzbek team yet. Hopefully Rastam's group  
> will be able to expand their activities to our project. :)


You know the drill. In Debian, the door often opens with Debian
Installer (not mandatory, but encouraged....this is a
longstanding-enough effort to actually allow us to check the
"resistance" of language teams...:-))). We don't have any Uzbek team,
yet, no.

Indeed, Central Asian languages l10n is not widely developed in
Debian. We had some contacts with A Kazakh team, but translation
effort is stalled for about 2 years now.

I would very much welcome any effort to develop Uzbek l10n in Debian
(and should I say this will directly benefit Ubuntu as well? In these
days, this is an argument that's appreciated by many users/teams,
whether we are enthusiast about this or not).