Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Ludo',

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> sirgazil <address@hidden> skribis:
> > 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”?).

Translation doesn't *mandate* mangling.  The French name for GNU 
grep is presumably just GNU grep, not la greppe GNU.

And if an upstream name isn't ‘pretty’ (which is why I don't like 
this subjective term and prefer DISPLAY-NAME or what even ever), 
we can just omit it & display its NAME everywhere, no?

Kind regards,

T G-R

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