Re: Looking for a Turkish user of tin

Pts 07 Mar 2005 00:33 tarihinde, Urs Janßen şunları yazmıştı: 

> complete? a saw 72 translated messages (out of ~1200).

The rest is marked as "fuzzy" as it needs someone to check it over, but they 
are there. 

>
> > , however the quality of the translation is low.
>
> and somewhat outdated as the translation is based on the strings
> found in tin-1.6.2 but it's  unlikely that there will be another
> tin-1.6.x release and a couple of strings have changed in the 1.7.xer
> branch. (The unstable branch (1.7.x) is not 'managed' by the TP, but I
> could ask them to do that.)
>

Well, speaking as a translator and a translation team leader, it is rather 
frustrating to work on a translation only to find out that it is outdated / 
no longer to be used etc. 

TP shows 1.6.2 as the latest/greatest version of tin. If this is not the case, 
I would really appreciate you updating it. 

> besides from that the tr.po file is in utf-8 which IMHO is not the best
> choice as it requires a utf-8 able environment to edit it (I usualy
> don't use a utf-8 environment) - IMHO iso8859-9 would be a better
> choice (for the moment and if it suffices).
>

Gettext in its later versions handles output string conversion so a utf8 
encoded translation is not a problem for a user in an iso-8859-9 environment.

For editing the file, the Turkish language community uses UTF8 rather more 
than an iso-8859-9 environment these days. 

If this is a problem for you as a maintainer, we can definitely encode the 
file in iso-8859-9, but it is not a problem for the translators. 

Best regards,
Deniz