[Ilugc] Centralized Tamil Spell checker for GNU/LINUX
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Wed Dec 31 18:23:08 2008
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2008 5:26:31 pm Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Not at all Mugunth. I can understand. That was not expression of
frustration but rather a inward question Why?
For various reasons, many of which share a common trait with the general
lack of Indian contributors to FOSS.
a very important factor - who does translations? Not software developers. The
people who do are the endusers who *require* translation. You want a tamil
translation of say, drupal. You will only get it when someone wants to build
a drupal based site in Tamil - not before. There are a few people like Amachu
or Kartik Mistry and some others who translate for love of their native
language - but these are exceptions. I would warrant that 90% of the web
developers on this list - or developers on this list - do not write i18n
code. They do not feel the need - there *is* no need. And translation where
there *is* a need is a very trivial matter. I once developed a site where
there was a need for both english and finnish. All I did was send the
relevant .po files to the client, she dug up poedit in windows and did the
needful in a day or two - and still updates it when needed.
So go create endusers in local languages for your software - translations will
happen.
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regards
KG
http://lawgon.livejournal.com
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