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Category Archives: i18n

Dealing with common mistranslations

Friday, March 7, 2008

In the Latvian l10n community we often deal with the problem of mistranslation of common words such as “file”, “preferences” and “advanced”. There are several words that fit each of those and over the years preferences in the community have shifted back and forth. I just came up with an idea of making a script [...]

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SBackup new beta – test and translate please!

Monday, May 21, 2007

With great help from Ouattara Oumar Aziz an new version of SBackup is shaping up in the svn repo and a day ago I created a public beta version – 0.10.4~beta10 which can be downloaded here. Please report any bugs or regressions to Sourceforge bug tracker. Also an update for translations and new translations can [...]

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Debian Extremadura I18N meeting 2006 photos

Sunday, September 10, 2006

The I18N meeting in Extremadura is almost over – tomorrow everyone is leaving to the airport at different times. So, enjoy the group photo of the meeting. And if you click the photo, that will bring you to a Frickr photoset that contains all the other good photos that I took at this meeting. Enjoy!

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Extremadura and nuclear ban

Saturday, September 9, 2006

The i18n work session in Extremadura is in the last day now and photos and impressions are accumulating. In the mean time I am translating some packages to Latvian and I discovered that the only place I can find a comprehensive list of officially translated country name to Latvian is a translation of the Comprehensive [...]

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SBackup revitalising – I18N

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

The development of SBackup was very stale for most of this year, mostly because many of the bug/feature that user were requesting required a significant rewrite of the codebase and at the same time I saw how messy the code has become over time. A few people came up and offered some help, but out [...]

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Here is my friend lastguru – the second …

Friday, December 2, 2005

Here is my friend lastguru – the second most active photographer on the AnimeFest3. He is trying to get a shot of the audience, but while he is doing that, I got a shot of him Yesterday I discovered a great surge in popularity of SBackup – just on SourceForge around 700 people downloaded it [...]

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