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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Maier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Multi-language to be or not to be
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:16:10 +0100
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Am Montag, 12. Februar 2007 09:50 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> Right. But will they rush to do that even if we have easier tools to do
> it?

I would love to translate some pages, but frankly anything short of a PO file 
or some equivalent technology isn't going to excite any translators for long.

> There's also the question of wether it's a good thing to have a say 15%
> translated site, vs a 0% translated one. If we have a 15% translation,
> that will give a very strange impression for people going there with a
> browser set for that language - some pages come up in their language,
> the majority comes up in a completely different language.

By that theory, no translation of open-source software would ever take place.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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