Subject: 25 locales & counting! how good is that?
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 17:44:12 CST
Now that Martin has checked in our 25th (!!) localization of AbiWord, I
figured this would be a good time to review how far we've come on this.
Being a competitive sort of person, I wanted to see how we stack up, by
analyzing the following URLs:
http://i18n.kde.org/teams/
http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/i18n-status-table.html
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/teams.html
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/status.shtml
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html
http://www.abisource.com/dev/strings/strings.html
http://www.sun.com/software/white-papers/wp-so52/#multilingual
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/FAQs/Multilang.asp#MUIques3
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/msdn/newup/glossary
Since the translation status of various projects tends to fluctuate greatly
-- some are always up-to-date, some are really lagging, and others don't
exist yet -- I went ahead and categorized translations as follows:
KDE
---
1 - KOffice current
2 - KOffice (< 50%)
3 - KDE current (UTF8, no KOffice)
4 - KDE dated (no UTF8, no KOffice)
9 - just people, no product
GNOME
-----
1 - current Nautilus & Ammonite
2 - some Nautilus
3 - dated
9 - just people, no product
Mozilla
-------
1 - current (M18, 0.6, 0.7, or 0.8)
2 - dated (M14 - M17)
3 - old
9 - just people, no product
AbiWord
-------
1 - current
2 - dated (< 50%)
StarOffice
----------
1 - exists
MSFT
-----
1 - Windows 2000 Advanced Server
2 - Windows 2000 Server
3 - Windows 2000 Professional
4 - glossary only
To better focus future discussion, I've broken out the resulting comparison
tables into three separate messages, as follows:
- locales with ispell dictionaries
- CJK locales
- other locales (without dictionaries)
Enjoy!
Paul
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