[Gvsig_english] Translation of the gvSIGdocumentation to English

Fri Jan 29 11:51:42 CET 2010

Hi all,

I think that the gvSIG 1.1.2 manual was translated to 'British' English, 
but it can be continued in the variant that you decide.

Unlike the interface translation, where the task is easier because it's 
a series of strings and it's not too difficult to translate to British 
and American, the documentation is more difficult to update, so at the 
moment we'd prefer to have only one translation completed.

At the Spanish list there are some users that are going to collaborate too.

Best regards,
         Mario

Frank Sokolic escribió:
> Benjamin,
> 
> Even though I spell using 'British' English, I think that we shouldn't 
> loose sight of the fact that the differences in spelling between the two 
> varieties of English are in fact quite minimal. The numbers of words 
> that are spelt the same by far outnumber those that are different. I 
> also agree with your view that British English is no longer as widely 
> established as it used to be.
> 
> 
> The bottom line is that whether we write the gvSIG manuals in American 
> or British English they are to all intents and purposes identical.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Frank.
> 
> 
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> 
> *From: *benjamin.ducke en oxfordarch.co.uk
> *Sent:*2010-01-29 10:27:47
> *To: *gvsig_internacional en listserv.gva.es
> *Cc: *
> *Subject:* Re: [Gvsig_english] Translation of the gvSIGdocumentation to 
> English
> As a neutral non-native English speaker I'd like
> to remark that today's British English spelling
> is in no way longer established or more widely
> used than North American spelling. The Webster's
> and Oxford Dictionaries have an equally long
> history and similar degrees of acceptance.
> 
> In fact, much of modern British spelling has been
> intentionally developed to look French-like,
> as that was the fashionable thing to do a hundred
> years ago -- in the case of "English" English.
> 
> Be that as it may, though, gvSIG's internationalization
> engine allows for all variants of English spelling to
> be present. In gvSIG 1.9 there is currently a choice
> between "English", "UK English" (which are the
> same) and "US English". If no Americans take
> offense with that, we can keep it that way ;)
> 
> Maintaining differences between a main "English" set
> of translation strings and variants like "US" is
> trivial.
> 
> Much less trivial is the fact that many strings in
> gvSIGs source code are still not exposed to the
> internationalization engine, because they are hard
> coded as Spanish strings.
> 
> A thing a concentrated effort here could go a long
> way towards improving the user interface.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)"
> To: "Users and Developers mailing list"
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:33:30 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin 
> / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna
> Subject: Re: [Gvsig_english] Translation of the gvSIG documentation to 
> English
> 
> Rory,
> 
> We should use colour, behaviour, kilometre, centimetre, etc.
> 
> But as my spell checker (in Thunderbird) is telling me I am misspelling
> these words, and similar behaviour is common in standard setups for
> OpenOffice and Word, I notice there is a general acceptance to allow the
> American Version of words into common parlance.
> 
> My preference is clearly English-English, if you know what I mean.
> 
> Cheers Simon
> 
> Simon Cropper
> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
> mailto: scropper en botanicusaustralia.com.au
> 
> web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au
> 
> 
> On 29/01/2010 10:27 AM, Rory Hill wrote:
>  > I too would be happy to do some proof reading. My vote would be for the
>  > British English because gvSIG has a lot of British users on the Mailing
>  > List and of course a few Antipodeans - come to think of it; do you use
>  > colour, behaviour, kilometre in Australia or the more American versions?
>  >
>  > All the best,
>  >
>  > Rory.
>  >
>  > Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote:
>  >
>  >> Mario,
>  >>
>  >> I would be happy to proof read the final documents. I will have no idea
>  >> if the text matches what is said by the original author in Spanish, but
>  >> I will be able to clarify if the English translation makes sense, has
>  >> correct grammar and spelling. Although you should actually clarify which
>  >> 'version' of English you want text translated to - American or
>  >> English/Australian (e.g. color vs. colour, behavior vs. behaviour,
>  >> kilometer vs. kilometre, etc).
>  >>
>  >> Cheers Simon
>  >>
>  >> Simon Cropper
>  >> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
>  >> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
>  >> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
>  >> mailto: scropper en botanicusaustralia.com.au
>  >>
>  >> web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> On 29/01/2010 3:39 AM, Mario Carrera wrote:
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>> Dear all,
>  >>>
>  >>> after the proposal of Simon Cropper for creating rough drafts of
>  >>> translations of the gvSIG documentation using, for example, Google
>  >>> Translator, we've considered it to advance with the English 
> translation.
>  >>> Of course, some supervisors would check the translations to finish 
> them.
>  >>>
>  >>> We consider the English translation very important because it makes the
>  >>> documentation accessible for more people as well as make the 
> translation
>  >>> to other languages easier.
>  >>>
>  >>> Anyone willing to collaborate can mail me and we will give you a portal
>  >>> user account (if you don't have one) and permissions over the English
>  >>> translations group.
>  >>>
>  >>> Best regards
>  >>> Mario
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
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Mario Carrera Rodríguez
Grupo SIG-CAD / gvSIG
Asistencia técnica externa
Servicio de Organización e Informática
Conselleria d'Infraestructures i Transport
Generalitat Valenciana
Valencia (España)
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