Subject: [Thuban-list] Re: translation of thuban

From: Jan-Oliver Wagner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:45:19 +0200

Hi,

[ I am cc'ing this to the Thuban mailing list as it is of
general interest ]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:12:21PM -0600, Francisco S G Jáuregui wrote:
> We are a very small group of people currently involved in the development 
> of free GIS tools supported by a government research institution in Mexico.
> 
> We have come across your Thuban project, and have found it very appealing; 
> your extensive use of Python has been particularly attractive to us.

thats nice to hear :-)

> With your permission we would like to prepare a translation of Thuban into 
> Spanish, intended for use in Latin America.  Of course we would also send 
> you any bug reports and comments that might pop into our (largely 
> untrained) minds.

any translation efford is welcome!

So far, we only made the first step towards real i18n support
and that is, we use a special function _() for any strings.
This function is eventually to be replaced by real gettext
functionality. Once this second step happened, it will be fairly
easy to add any translation.

If you know about gettext functionality and how to use
it with python, your help would be very welcome to set this up.
If not, we'll have to see when we can afford the time to
do this ourselves (we are currently very busy working on further
projections, PostGIS-support and table management).

Best

	Jan
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