[Mageia-i18n] [Bug 1228] Spelling of "centre" incorrect in mcc for locale en_GB

[Oliver Burger]

John <john at neodoc.biz> schrieb am 10.05.2011
> There is an English team (of 3), at least 2 of whom are native
> en_GB speakers, listed on the translators page.
Yes there are, but they are non responsive. When i18n work began, they 
were beginning to setup a team, but then we heard nothing more from 
them.
> 
> It seems kind of pointless to have separate teams for the various
> en_xx locales when in reality there are only two flavours of
> English (en_US and en_GB). The basic difference between these two
> flavours being spelling, so why not setup a generic en_i18n for
> problems such as this?
We wouldn't need two teams, just one team that is responsible for 
en_GB and en_US would be enough, but we need to have those people 
first.
> 
> It also appears that there is no mechanism to ensure that the .pot
> files are checked for spelling and grammar before being passed to
> the various translation teams.
It would have to be a team that is VERY responsive. Or we would have 
quite some bottleneck in i18n work.
Do you have such a responsive team at hand?
> 
> Is there a policy which states what the default locale is for .pot
> files?
I don't know, we have quite some mixture of en_GB and en_US there 
iirc, shortly we corrected the en_US "dependancy" to the en_GB 
"dependency" because some people thought it was a bug. But as long as 
we don't have such a policy, you can't really say, which one of those 
is the bug.
I think discussing this is definitely something to discuss AFTER mga1 
release.

By the way, we have spelling differences between de_DE, de_CH and de_AT 
as well, but I never heard Austrians or Swiss complaining about de_DE 
spellings in the software and I think correcting those spellings is a 
"nice to have", but only if we have volunteers doing it...

Oliver
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