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Internationalization and Localization

Debian wiki's internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) portal.

Debian has many services, softwares, interfaces and infrastructures to handle the complexity of its operations. Most of these mechanisms were built using English as the primary (and many times, the only) language. In order to cope with its "universal operating system" motto, many efforts are made to internationalize, localize and translate all possible interfaces:

I18N (internationalization) means modification of a software or related technologies so that a software can potentially handle multiple languages, customs, and so on in the world.
L10N (localization) means implementation of a specific language for an already internationalized software.
Introduction to i18n, Tomohiro KUBOTA

Debian Reference - Chapter 8. I18N and L10N
Debian Developer's Reference - 6.6.2. General recommendations for authors and translators

Contents

Internationalization and Localization

General

I18n/BTSActions
I18n/ToDo (outdated: to be rewritten after I18n/Sprint2012)
I18n/DDTP2: The future of the DDTP

Infrastructure support

I18n/SCIM
I18n/ibus (like SCIM, actively developed)
I18n/Fcitx5

Actions

I18n/SmithReviewProject: The Smith Review Project aimed to review English texts

Proposals

Meetings

Extremadura Meetings
- Past
DebConf
- We usually run some BOFs and other discussions related to i18n/l10n
Sprints
- I18n/Sprint2012 : i18n sprint in Paris to prepare i18n.debian.org and ddtp.debian.org machines

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 * '' '''I18N''' (internationalization) means modification of a software or related technologies so that a software can potentially handle multiple languages, customs, and so on in the world.''

 * '' '''L10N''' (localization) means implementation of a specific language for an already internationalized software.''
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 * [[https://www.debian.org/international/|Debian international]] official website
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Internationalization and Localization

General

Infrastructure support

Actions

Proposals

Meetings

Language Support Improvements

Resources

See also

Wiki pages