[FM Discuss] Portals for Russian and Spanish manuals?

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 05:58, Daniel James
<daniel.james at sourcefabric.org> wrote:
> Hi Edward,
>
>> How about starting with buttons, and putting the menu below
>>
>> English
>> French
>> Spanish
>> Arabic
>> Chinese
>> MORE -->[long list]
>
> The trouble with that last button is how we translate 'More' :-)

+?

> I'd suggest listing every language that has at least one completely
> translated manual available. If a reader speaks that language, they will
> understand that FM is available to them, and might participate in new
> translations.
>
>> We could have a submenu for the major international languages, including
>>
>> English (UK, Commonwealth, US)
>> French (Francophonie)
>> Spanish (Spain, Latin America and more)
>> Russian (Former Soviet Union)
>> Arabic (Middle East and North Africa)
>> Chinese Traditional (Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, others)
>> Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, others) [when the time comes]
>>
>> and list the rest geographically by the countries where they are
>> official or native.
>
> The problem with that approach is that the official language in a
> particular country is not necessarily the one for which the translation
> is needed most. It's also a political issue in some countries. So I
> suggest we forget about geography and just list the languages, starting
> with the one that has the most translated books available, progressing
> downwards to the least translated. That might encourage a little
> friendly competition among translators, to get their language higher up
> in the list :-)
>
> People who speak a certain language will certainly recognise the name of
> it in their own character set, even if they can read nothing else on FM.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>



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Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
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