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

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• I18n/ToDo (outdated: to be rewritten after I18n/Sprint2012)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

• ?I18n/TranslationDataDistribution

• TranslationDebs

• I18n/LanguagePacks

• I18n/FrameworkIdeas1

• I18n/FrameworkIdeas2

• I18n/MALME

Meetings

• Extremadura Meetings
  • Past

    • I18n/Extremadura2008

    • I18n/Extremadura2007

    • I18n/Extremadura2006

• 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

Language Support Improvements

• I18n/TaiwanLocalizationProject

  • I18n/TaiwanIndigenousLanguages

• I18n/NorthAmericanIndigenousLanguages

Resources

• Debian I18n Team

• Debian Installer i18n and l10n Guide

• Introduction to i18n

• #debian-i18n

Wiki pages

List of pages related to i18n/l10n in Debian:

CategoryPortal CategoryLocalization CategoryTeams