Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

[sirgazil]

El 31/03/19 a las 3:31 p. m., Ludovic Courtès escribió:
> sirgazil <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > El 31/03/19 a las 11:37 a. m., Ludovic Courtès escribió:
> > > Hi sirgazil,
> > >
> > > sirgazil <address@hidden> skribis:
> > >
> > > > I don't know exactly what should be done in Guix, though, but I think
> > > > having a "system name" and a "pretty name" that is translatable could
> > > > help a little bit.
> > >
> > > It’s a tricky topic indeed (and not specific to Guix).
> > >
> > > There are i18n and accessibility (a11n) issues, I agree.  The problem is
> > > that those “system names” are essentially identifiers, pretty much like
> > > Unix command names.  Sometimes they’re abbreviations of common English
> > > names, sometimes they’re proper names, etc.  So not all of them are
> > > subject to translation.  I think they should really be treated like
> > > identifiers in programming languages or command names.
> >
> >
> > Oh yeah, I'm not suggesting to translate "system names", but have both
> > "system names" and "pretty names", and only the latter would be
> > internationalized :)
>
> But even that is not really feasible: often there’s no “pretty name”,
> sometimes there’s one that’s not translatable (“GNU grep”?  “Scribus”?).


Hmm, true.

--
Luis Felipe López Acevedo
http://sirgazil.bitbucket.io/