On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:54 PM, <keld@keldix.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:12:10AM +0200, Yaron Shahrabani wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor@ukr.net> wrote:
>
> > Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:10:05 +0200 ???????? ???????????????? Yaron Shahrabani <
> > sh.yaron@gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> >  On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor@ukr.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>  Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:49:18 +0200 ???????? ???????????????? Yaron Shahrabani <
> >>> sh.yaron@gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  Hi Yuri!
> >>>
> >>>> Just to make sure, is this package using CLDR?
> >>>>
> >>>> Yaron Shahrabani
> >>>>
> >>>> <Hebrew translator>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Hi Yaron!
> >>>
> >>> No. It is not. It is Fedora/Red Hat-only solution, not used in any other
> >>> distributions (AFAIK).
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Yuri
> >>>
> >>>  Hi again!
> >>
> >> CLDR has nothing to do with cross distro, it's a standard directory for
> >> international definitions like the names of the day in each language or
> >> the
> >> name of the months, names of languages, countries etc.
> >>
> >> This way you don't need to wait for the translators to do it, you just
> >> copy
> >> this definitions from there or use it via an external package providing
> >> all
> >> this info (I think it's called ICU).
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Yaron Shahrabani.
> >>
> >
> > No, system-config-date does not use CLDR and I am not a developer of
> > system-config-date. Please report bugs if you want this feature.
> >
> I see, thanks for the clarification.
>
> >
> > The crowd translations from CLDR are of very low quality (imho) and should
> > be used with great care, at least for Ukrainian. The results of their
> > application at transifex are not very promising. The general idea was good
> > but the implementation is very inflexible and at least sometimes leads to
> > mistakes.
> >
> Why don't you get involved in CLDR in order to fix that?

I think we should rather use the glibc data that has good participation from Linux, and IMHO
has better data quality for as number of locales, including Danish, my own language.

best regards
keld
Gettext does not include translation of terms, only the plural forms, these are related though quite different :) 

> >
> > Broken dates in Ukrainian locale on Transifex due to mistakes in CLDR:
> >
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/**55247264/broken_dates.png<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/broken_dates.png>
>
> Do you need my assistance in opening  a bug in CLDR?
>
> Thanks for pointing that out, I had no idea, In Hebrew it works pretty well.
>
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yuri
> >
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor@ukr.net>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>  Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You might already realized that system-config-date translations [1]
> >>>>> were
> >>>>> wiped due to minor mistake in template names (the original template was
> >>>>> replaced by system-config-date interface template, then restored).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The maintainer answered to my request as follows:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "it seems that I've made a copy-paste error, I should have fixed this
> >>>>> now."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Now the template is on its right place and the translations can be
> >>>>> restored using POs from src RPM. Just extract it for your language then
> >>>>> upload to Transifex [1].
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hope this helps.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>> Yuri
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [1] https://fedora.transifex.com/******projects/p/system-config-****
> >>>>> date/**<https://fedora.transifex.com/****projects/p/system-config-**date/**>
> >>>>> <https://fedora.**transifex.com/**projects/p/**system-config-date/**<https://fedora.transifex.com/**projects/p/system-config-date/**>
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> resource/timezones_master/<**htt**ps://fedora.transifex.**com/**<http://fedora.transifex.com/**>
> >>>>> projects/p/system-config-date/****resource/timezones_master/<h**
> >>>>> ttps://fedora.transifex.com/**projects/p/system-config-date/**
> >>>>> resource/timezones_master/<https://fedora.transifex.com/projects/p/system-config-date/resource/timezones_master/>
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [2] ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/******fedora/linux/development/**<ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/****fedora/linux/development/**>
> >>>>> <**ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/****fedora/linux/development/**<ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/**fedora/linux/development/**>
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> rawhide/source/SRPMS/s/system-******config-date-1.10.5-1.fc19.**
> >>>>> **src.**rpm<
> >>>>> ftp://fr2.rpmfind.**net/linux/**fedora/linux/**development/**
> >>>>> rawhide/source/
> >>>>> **SRPMS/s/system-config-date-**1.**10.5-1.fc19.src.rpm<ftp://**
> >>>>> fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/**linux/development/rawhide/**
> >>>>> source/SRPMS/s/system-config-**date-1.10.5-1.fc19.src.rpm<ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/source/SRPMS/s/system-config-date-1.10.5-1.fc19.src.rpm>
> >>>>> >
> >>>>>
> >>>>> >
> >>>>>
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