[Mailman-Developers] translation of mail templates

[Peter Holzer]

Hi
Aside of the actual translations being done...
Can someone confirm that german umlauts and more or less 
exotic characters should work within the mail templates?
Or shall i write a bug report?
Peter


On 22.08.2012, at 01:47, Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org> wrote:

> On Aug 21, 2012, at 01:04 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
>> Patrick Ben Koetter writes:
>> 
>>> They have free accounts for open source projects. It might be a
>>> nice way to organize a translation community.
>> 
>> It's likely that we don't have to organize one, we already have one.
>> Barry, why don't you try to get in touch with that Vietnamese lady and
>> see what she thinks?
> 
> Right, that would be Clytie, CC'd here.  However, it's been a while since
> we've heard from her.
> 
>> There are also active translation communities at Debian and Launchpad,
>> and I would assume at Red Hat/Fedora.  Both Deb and Ubuntu are happy
>> Mailman users, and I would guess Red Hat/Fedora, too.  All probably
>> would find some of the MM3 features very attractive for their own use.
> 
> Definitely, and I've looked at all of the various translation services, mostly
> from the point of view of a project manager non-translator.  E.g. how would I
> push updates into the service, how would I pull updates from the service,
> etc.  I think I have a fairly good sense of what will work and what will cause
> headaches.  I think I've posted to mailman-i18n@ before about my thoughts
> there.  I'm CC'ing that list here too.
> 
> But in some sense, it's more important for the translators to feel
> comfortable and welcome in whatever system we chose.  Most are non-technical,
> so I think it's easier for us to make project workflow conform to a great
> translation system's quirks (and there *will* be quirks ;) than for them to
> work around pain in a translation system that easily integrates with our
> workflow.
> 
> One question I have, and Steve, you're probably a great person to weigh in on
> this: what requirements does the GPLv3+ and being a GNU project place on us?
> 
> Cheers,
> -Barry
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