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Re: hebrew team for the FTP
Idan Sofer wrote:
>
> FTP - Free Translation Project is a project formed by linux international
> in order to help translating of free software to varius of languages.
>
> as for now there is no hebrew team.
>
> i wonder if anyone wants to form one
I have sent to the list before a redhat-install howto in hebrew.
it has many mistakes,
and i will fix them to have a howto for redhat 6.
Besides that,
I think that the problem with hebrew, cannot be solved by translation.
As I see it, the problem is the inconsistency between unicode/visual
standrards,
and the lack of hebrew widgets.
(I've heard gtk+ 1.3 and qt 2.0 will not have these problems)
Linux cannot be an israeli desktop without hebrew word processor, and
hebrew applications.
(and these could not exist without the hebrew widgets, ofcourse)
Further more,
I think hebrew translation will make things overly difficult,
because of the lack of hebrew translation for various technical terms.
a hebrew user will have a hard time decyphering the meaning of these.
The best example for this is "Windows enabled".
this means that the UI is in english, but hebrew is possible.
Since linux is much more complicated than windows,
this is the best choice to have.
(windows enabled was created due to the large demand)
Many kids and non-english speakers are using the hebrew ui,
these ofcourse are not the power-users, and won't be interested in
linux.
When Linux will have good hebrew widgets,
AND will become a suitible enviroment for every newbie,
(I think it is, some newbies don't ;-))
Translation of "user only UI" must become availible.
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