[wp-polyglots] request for translation extension

[Xavier Borderie]

Handling and supporting one idiom/dialect per country is already a lot
of work. I couldn't imagine having to handle two versions of our
translation. The solution would then be to fork the initial
translation with another team, but that would mean a lot of disparity
in the short term.
Don't misunderstand me, I think it's great to offer more choices to
the user (formal/informal, casual/standard...), but I doubt this is an
achievable goal, simply because it'd be twice the work.

My 2 eurocents.

-x.


2008/12/19 Heiko Rabe <info at code-styling.de>:
> Hi all,
>
> my work as developer dealing with the PHP codepart of translations since 3
> month at WordPress community raised several questions/needs not handled
> qualified yet.
> If you have a country with only one locale, you can nevertheless have many
> types of idiom/dialect their.
> But this has not been respected until now. Let me illustrate 2 examples:
>
> zh_CN   -> chinese  -> has got arround 7 or more idiom types can be seen
> here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language#sortable_table_id_0
> de_DE   -> german  -> may have idiom types like polite/bussiness (Sie) and
> colloquial (Du)
>
> But both have only one locale (i think, there must be many more countries
> having the same problems).
>
> My suggestion would be an extension of the *.po(t) header with a new field
> can be automatically processed and could be used to show up the
> WordPress user several types of idiom during auto.update, if they available.
>
>   X-IDIOM-TYPE:   Standard
> or
>   X-IDIOM-TYPE:   Bussiness
> or
>   X-IDIOM-TYPE:   Colloquial
> or
>   X-IDIOM-TYPE:   Mandarin
> ....
>
> or what ever could be defined. This would allow the translator community to
> provide several types of translations for their countries and also give the
> WordPress users the choise of what they want to have at their backend.
>
> Questions:
> - Why we don't support several types of idiom during auto-update with
> language files of WordPress ?
> - Would anyone else be interested doing so ?
>
> I would be interested in you opinions about that extension of translations
> file header and also WordPress itself. This is a concept draft suggestion,
> feel free to criticize it/me. ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Heiko
>
>
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Xavier Borderie