Re: lynx-dev Re: Hello/LYNX

[Webmaster Jim]

On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 10:41:45AM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
> I wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 10:56:40AM +0200, alain kernoa wrote:
> > > I work in a French hospital in Paris, and we have a lot of terminals,
> > > so for our intranet we must use Lynx but most of person of this
> > > hospital don't read english, so how can we do to obtain all help
> > > user's messages in french, for examples the help keys ?
> > Most of the developers of Lynx only know English, but that hasn't
> > stopped us trying to make it available to others. So far, many messages
> > have been translated to French (and more to German). The French
> > translations came from Lynx users in Canada. I'm hoping for translated
> > versions of help pages and other documents (real soon now).
> 
> If they can overcome the initial "how to make it all work on SunOS
> (Solaris?) hurdle, it may be more realistic to let them write/update
> their own translations as needed, rather than wait for someone else
> to do it.  And encourage to contribute back.  Once set up, it's not
> so difficult (especially if they have someone familiar with emacs...)
> 
> The good thing is that translation can be done incrementally - first
> do the messages that users actually see most often, as much as is needed
> to help them get started.  Also translate at first only some most
> necessary help pages, like keyboard navigation keys.
> 
> You didn't provide a pointer to the currently available (incomplete)
> translations:  <http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/po/>
> 
> I think a link to it should also be on the 
>        http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/release/
> and
>        http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/current/
> pages, with the appropriate disclaimers that it's preliminary, incomplete
> etc.  IMO making this more visible would encourage more people to at least
> become curious and maybe work on it (and/or contact the translation team).

OK; I've added link on those pages, as well on as the FTP site Let me.
know if the disclaimers have enough "dis" in them.

> Unfortunately, some of the more useful aspects of lynx haven't yet been
> internationalized.  I'm thinking in particular of the KEYMAP display.

Volunteers are always welcome to tackle these in small pieces.

> > There is a Free Translation Project that may have volunteers who could
> > do this (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard). Any other help you could
> > give would be appreciated.
> Unfortunately, the link to the "French site" from that page is currently
> broken.

bummer

> Has there been any progress in the last months regarding lynx in the FTS?
> I couldn't find any hint of lynx in the "Central PO file registry" linked
> from the above URL.

No.  None.  Nothing :-(

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