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["K.de Jong" <k.dejong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2011/1/18 Alexander Lancey <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  I figured once we had the time and means to translate the site, we'd
> autodetect the language, and have a dropdown bar or something for manual
> selection.
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> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 22:36 -0500, Jason Odoom wrote:
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> Sure, good idea. Shall it be down manually or with a translation widget? If
> not, then it would be http://ubuntutour.org/english
> http://ubuntutour.org/s <http://ubuntutour.org/english>panish
>
>  http://ubuntutour.org/l <http://ubuntutour.org/english>atin and so on?
> Or http://ubuntutour.org/en <http://ubuntutour.org/english>
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>  http://ubuntutour.org/s <http://ubuntutour.org/english>p (or whatever the
> abbreviation is).
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>  With all due respect,
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>    Jason Odoom
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>  https://launchpad.net/~jasonodoom <https://launchpad.net/%7Ejasonodoom>
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>  Sent from Ubuntu <http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop>.
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>  On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Jan Schuermann <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> i think to bring Ubuntu to "normal" computer users the most important
> thing is to get them where they are...and the first thing is the native
> language of users. look at the adverts from Apple or Microsoft, all
> adverts, in my country, for their products are in my language, so i
> automatically have a natural relation to it.
> the exisitng websites from http://ubuntu.com and other resources like
> the tour project or the manual project are really great and powerful
> publicity (in English-speaking countries).
> why we want to reinvent the wheel?
> why not translating all the great Ubuntu sites into the most common
> languages and use the existing corporate identity, instead of making
> something new and confuse the potential new user!
>
> are here some people from non-english-speaking countries?
>
> which languages did we have here?
> perhaps:
> Spanish
> Portugues
> German
> Swedish
> Dutch
> French
>
> any other?
>
> let's try to bring Ubuntu to the people - there are so many people not
> speaking or understanding english very well and Ubuntu definitely IS a
> multilanguage OS why not the "corporate" ressources?
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Maybe we could request for translations on the site via wiki ?
PO files do not seem to fit this project very well.

show the 'untranslated language of choice on the top and below have
a textarea / editor available for the translation.

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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Keimpe de Jong (UndiFineD)