Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jan 2008 07:48:40 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Kbuild update |
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:39:53PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:23:16PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote: > > > > {snip} > > > > >TODO items (from my mailbox - I have plenty more) > > >================================================= >... > > >- i18n patch for mconf and friends (from Kernel Translator project) > > > is old but several bits of it needs to be applied to better support i18n > > > > Hmm, I glanced at that project. It's old and seems freezed now. > > I don't know if people still have interests in the i18n of kconfig. > > If so, I think I can help with the Chinese part. ;) > > >From the off-list communication I have had there is indeed an interest. > It sort of stopped at one point due to missing integration in mainline. > What I refer to is mostly the mconf.c bits, but I would also like to > see what lkml says to a sample of .po files included in the kernel > for a number of languages. > > One criteria to get a .po file integrated could be at least 10% of the > strings translated or similar.
Besides the initial translation efforts a big problem would be to also find people who will regularly update the translations for many years.
Otherwise the next round of spelling fixes will push this far below 10%...
> Sam
cu Adrian
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