[Translators] General notes for translators

[Khoem Sokhem]

Hello Christoph,

My Name and Language are 100% correct!


Regards & Thanks,
Sokhem



On 09-Jul-12 5:32 AM, Christoph Miebach wrote:
> 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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