[Translators] General notes for translators

Oleksandr Natalenko pfactum at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 15:05:31 CEST 2012


In About box there is

Oleksandr Natalenko - Ukranian

but should be

Oleksandr Natalenko - Ukrainian

09.07.12 01:32, Christoph Miebach написав(ла):
> Hello all!
> 
> Since I did some of the AUTHORS update myself, I want to add my point of
> view:
> We really _want_ to give credits to all of our translators and as you
> probably expected, typos or completely wrong names are not intended.
> 
> I encourage everyone maintaining a translation (or doing the work that
> is) to check:
> 
> - The about box (the "Authors" tab) or the AUTHORS file itself (for vlc
> 2.0.2)
> 
> - http://www.videolan.org/developers/i18n/
> 
> If the right person(s) is(/are) mentioned, if all of them are mentioned
> and if the names are spelled correctly. Checking the language's name
> won't hurt, either. Proper names are hard to spell (check), even in your
> own language, so expect us to fix them only if we are pointed towards them.
> 
> If you are a new translator, supply an accurate *FIRST* and *LAST* name,
> and make it clear if you wish to be anonymous.
> 
> If a Windows or a OSX machine is available, you could also check if the
> language is selectable.
> 
> Any errors found could be send to me (although I hope, there are not so
> much of them, "spamming" the list seems unnecessary).
> 
> As much of you noticed, there is a beta version VLC for Android
> available. Translating it will enable testing the translation, but the
> strings used are far away from being stable. You are not required to
> keep the translation up to date all the time, as it is going to change
> rather often.
> 
> For the iOS version there is not even decided, if it will ever be
> released at all. So give translating it a very low priority since at the
> moment I would call it a possible waste of time.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Christoph
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