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From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
To: Johannes Gilger <heipei@hackvalue.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Translations in Git release?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:07:15 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901261104060.7798@ds9.cixit.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <glk19g$2f5$1@ger.gmane.org>

Johannes Gilger:

> My oppinion on localization of software (and its documentation) is
> generally a negative one.

That's the normal response from tech-savvy people. They usually dislike
translations because they think it cannot convey the same ideas as the
original.

However, for a lot of less techy people, having to use software and
read documentation in a non-native language *is* a big hurdle for using
computers. That is especially true when it comes to complex software,
such as Git.

I would very much like to see the core git commands translated. The
command-line svn client already talks Swedish to me (cvs does not,
though), and I would be very happy to teach git the same. I already did
translate git-gui and gitk, which was as much for my own benefit as
others.

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-26 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-25 17:41 Translations in Git release? Dill
2009-01-25 18:54 ` Jeff King
2009-01-26  9:54 ` Johannes Gilger
2009-01-26 10:07   ` Peter Krefting [this message]
2009-01-26 12:31 ` Translations [of Documentation] " Jakub Narebski
2009-01-26 13:27   ` Peter Krefting
2009-01-26 13:34     ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-26 15:31     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-26 16:23       ` Mike Hommey
2009-01-26 19:30         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-27  7:01           ` Peter Krefting
2009-01-27 11:16             ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-27 14:45               ` Peter Krefting
2009-01-26 19:58       ` Dill
2009-01-26 20:38         ` Junio C Hamano

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