Adding a new language to fedora

[Parag Nemade]

  Hi,

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 02:40 PM, Nils-Christoph Fiedler wrote:
> Yes, sure - what you see are the translations I already made for GNOME 
> upstream in the past ;-) http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/nds
> But I am just talking about fedoras own strings on 
> translate.fedoraproject.org. - I can not find any information, how to 
> add a new language there.
>
> Nils
>
> ---
> Am Donnerstag, den 12.08.2010, 10:47 +0530 schrieb Parag Nemade:
>> On Thursday 12 August 2010 09:18 AM, Parag Nemade wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> On Tuesday 10 August 2010 09:38 PM, Nils-Christoph Fiedler wrote:
>>>> *hej folks,*
>>>>
>>>> i just switched to fedora and would like to contribute in 
>>>> translations like i did / do for ubuntu and gnome. today the fedora 
>>>> project is missing the language "low german (nds)".
>>>>
>>>> as a gnome contributor i am familiar with gnome, but not with 
>>>> fedora individual characteristics up to now. so i need a little 
>>>> help from you to start contributing to fedora. e.g.: where can i 
>>>> start? whom can i talk to for creating the blank .po-catalogs / 
>>>> adding my language to the project, etc.
>>>   Please refer this link 
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N#Adding_Language_Support
>>>
>>>  Parag.
>>>
>>    I just looked into Fedora 13 system and found that Low German 
>> locale is already added. See file /usr/share/i18n/locales/nds_DE. I 
>> don't see any translation installed by any package under 
>> "/usr/share/locale/nds_DE/LC_MESSAGES" but you can see "Low 
>> German(Germany)" language selection option in gdm. When you will 
>> login to Fedora by selecting this language, you will be using 
>> translations from "/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES" as its fallback 
>> from nds_DE to nds.
>>    So, I can see Localized Fedora Desktop for "Low German(Germany)" 
>> language. You need to create new language module at 
>> https://translate.fedoraproject.org/languages. Also, check 
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N for localization of Fedora.
>>
>> Parag.
>>
>>
   For any help related to transifex, please check 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N#Communication. This is i18n mailing 
list and localization related problems can be discussed on trans mailing 
list.

Parag.

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