Re: ta_LK language pack for Squirrel mail

Paul,

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Paul Lesniewski <[email protected]>wrote:

> Sarves,
>
> It's looking good....
>

Thanks  :)

>
> > > For new translations, we are only using the language code unless the
> > > language is different in another country.  So, would "ta" work instead
> > > of "ta_LK"?
> >
> > Tamil is been used in Many countries including Sri Lanka (LK), India,
> Singapore, Malaysia...
> > Though the written Tamil is same in all of these countries, there are
> differences in real usage.
> > We are also doing Joomla, Moodle, Mozilla localizations and in all we are
> using ta_LK.
> > Therefore I think it is appropriate to use 'ta_LK' rather 'ta'.
>
> I see, on the other hand, that KDE uses only "ta":
>
> http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=ta
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/ta/
>
> Same with Debian:
>
> http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po/ta
>
> And Fedora:
>
> http://translate.fedoraproject.org/languages/ta
>
> And Ubuntu:
>
> https://translations.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-ta<https://translations.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-l10n-ta>
>
> I don't claim to be an expert on Tamil, or maybe my research is
> flawed, but I'd like to keep our translations synchronized with the
> rest of the world.
>

Thing is, we do not touch in areas that you have listed and those will be
huge works.
Upto now what we were doing are (You can find the translations on the
respective sites), Joomla!, Mozilla and Moodle and hoping to do Open Office
soon.

Of course, as I said before too, in written Tamil, you cant find any
different in Sri Lankan Tamil, Indian Tamil, and other Tamil.
Therefore if you really want you can define this as 'ta', No problem for us.


>
> >> Also, the POT-Creation-Date is troubling to me - what file did you
> >> translate?  This is the best one I think:
> >
> > Sorry for the confusion, I corrected that.
>
> It's not that you should just change that date unless you changed it
> to match the file that you based your translation upon.  Can you tell
> me where you got the original .pot file that you translated?
>

I do not know where the .pot file came from (Sorry for the irresponsible
answer, but I do not have any other answers). I was given with a POT file
sometime ago and I copied the POT-Creation-Date date from it.


>
> >> Which of the authors would you like to be considered official
> >> maintainers of the translation?
> >
> > Now please add Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran.
> > Can we add more people in future if need?
> Sure.  I'll need an email address for anyone who is a maintainer.


> >From what I understand, you will be the only maintainer for now,
> right?
>

Yes.
Now Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves) - [email protected]
But we will be adding 1 or 2 in future.


> Also, can you please change the copyright date on the 2nd line of the
> file to 2009?
>
> # Copyright (c) 1999-2009 The SquirrelMail Project Team
>

Done, File is attached.


>
> Finally, in your testing, what did you add to functions/i18n.php?
> Here is an example for Latvian.  Please show what you used for Tamil.
>
> $languages['lv_LV']['NAME']    = 'Latvian';
> $languages['lv_LV']['ALTNAME'] = 'Latvi&#371;';
> $languages['lv_LV']['CHARSET'] = 'utf-8';
> $languages['lv_LV']['LOCALE'] = 'lv_LV.UTF-8';
> $languages['lv']['ALIAS'] = 'lv_LV';
>
> Note that LOCALE can contain multiple preferences in case the firsst
> isn't found, such as:
>
> $languages['sv_SE']['LOCALE']  = array('sv_SE.UTF-8','sv_SE');


$languages['ta_LK']['NAME']    = 'Tamil';
$languages['ta_LK']['CHARSET'] = 'utf-8';
$languages['ta_LK']['LOCALE']  = array('ta_LK.UTF-8','ta_LK');
$languages['ta']['ALIAS']      = 'ta_LK';

This is what we had in our testing system. But if you would like to change
ta_lk to ta, then these need to be changed accordingly. Please do that
change if need.

When we check this pack with version 1.5+  we also added 'ALTNAME' to the
setup.php
$languages['ta_LK']['ALTNAME'] = '&#2980;&#2990;&#3007;&#2996;&#3021;';

Therefore you can use this too if need.

Thanks,
Sarves

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