Adding a new language to fedora

[Nils-Christoph Fiedler]

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.

i'd love to hear from you!

kind regards,
nils

p.s.: if you want to learn a little more about me:
https://launchpad.net/~ncfiedler
http://live.gnome.org/Nils-ChristophFiedler

[Takao Fujiwara]

If you're talking about adding .po files, it might be better to ask
trans(a)lists.fedoraproject.org instead.

(08/11/10 01:08), Nils-Christoph Fiedler-san 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.
>
>  i'd love to hear from you!
>
>  kind regards,
>  nils
>
>  p.s.: if you want to learn a little more about me:
>  https://launchpad.net/~ncfiedler
>  http://live.gnome.org/Nils-ChristophFiedler
>
>
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[Parag Nemade]

  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.

[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.

[Nils-Christoph Fiedler]

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.
>  
>  
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[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.