I’m working on translating a software to another language - latin- and I see there’s no option for making a whole new language option (I’m using British english as a base). The language code is la/lat. I’m not sure how to add it as an option for a language option in the directory for the application to register in the app as a language.
Where could I go for help on this topic?
I use Lokalize to translate. Is there an option there for a la/lat directory in the software? (I’m working on krita btw)
The question is not new and it depends on whether the language is supported by glibc locale or not. If it is not, we can’t do much. Also, Qt locales depends on CLDR, so CLDR should support the language as well
If the language is supported on glibc, at least on the KDE side we need to build a team and at least one team coordinator (who should subscribe and follow that mailing list).
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres? It’s a fun idea though. Maybe that gets the whole country of Vatican to switch their computers to KDE? “Fasciculum → aperire”
You are proposing the language, you will be the first team coordinator (I’m not sure who else could help - my last translations from latin is from high school almost 30 years ago)
Arrr, shiver me timbers! That be a fine notion, shipmate!
While the scholars be fussin’ with their dusty Latin, why not have a tongue for us salty dogs of the digital seas? Aye, Pirate Language be the perfect choice for any scallywag who finds “Amo, Amas, Amat” to be a lot of bilgewater!
It’d be a language for the rest of us, where “copy” be “shanghai that text,” “paste” be “stick it in the hold,” and a system crash be a “mutiny on the galley!” Aye, 'tis a grand idea!
So I says, Aye! Let’s have an official option for us what prefers a good “Yarr!” over a stuffy “Salve!”
Ok so while we’re at it, we might as well add Bavarian and Platt, two German dialects that are so different from their high language that they definitely justify two additional languages.
Pirate speak is probably out of question, it doesn’t even have an ISO code.
For any other language or dialect, the same points apply: do they have an ISO code? Are they supported by glibc and CLDR? If the answer to any of those is no, we can’t do anything. Interested people should work on fixing the prerequisite first, and wait until we depend on the relevant versions of the prerequisite (if you add the language to glibc now, we can’t probably add it immediately).
Ah no I didn’t! Well I only speak Bavarian, and frankly, if I set my computer to anything other than English, I have no idea what it’s talking about after a short while
Yarr-harr!
I do understand Bavarian but have a hard time with Frisian even though I live in between the two areas.