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.
Debian Developer's Reference - 6.6.2. General recommendations for authors and translators
Introduction to i18n
Contents
General
I18n/ToDo (outdated: to be rewritten after I18n/Sprint2012)
I18n/DDTP2: The future of the DDTP
Infrastructure support
I18n/ibus (like SCIM, actively developed)
Actions
I18n/SmithReviewProject: The Smith Review Project aimed to review English texts
Proposals
?I18n/TranslationDataDistribution
Meetings
- Extremadura Meetings
- 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
Resources
Wiki pages
List of pages related to i18n/l10n in Debian:
- DDTP
- DebianEdu/Contribute/Translation
- DebianHebrew
- DebianWiki/I18n
- DebianWiki/TranslationCoordination
- DebianWiki/TranslationNamespace
- FreedomBox/Translate
- FreedomBox/Translate/DiscussionLocalization
- FreedomBox/Translate/TestingPlinthTranslation
- I18n
- I18n/BTSActions
- I18n/DDTP2
- I18n/Extremadura2006
- I18n/Extremadura2007
- I18n/Fcitx5
- I18n/FrameworkIdeas1
- I18n/FrameworkIdeas2
- I18n/LanguagePacks
- I18n/MALME
- I18n/NorthAmericanIndigenousLanguages
- I18n/SCIM
- I18n/Sprint2012
- I18n/TaiwanIndigenousLanguages
- I18n/TaiwanLocalizationProject
- I18n/ibus
- I18n/uim
- Java/OmegaT
- L10n
- L10n/Belarusian
- L10n/Coordination
- L10n/DDTSS
- Locale
- Po4a
- Services/DebianCatalanL10nBot
- Teams/I18n
- Teams/Welcome/Translators
- be/L10n/Belarusian
- fr/L10n/French
- gnome-chinese-input
- i18n/TranslationDebs
- id/L10n/Indonesian
- ko/L10n/Korean
- nl/L10n/Dutch
- po
- ro/L10n/Romanian
- scn/L10n/Sicilian
- tr/L10n/Turkish
- vi/L10n/Vietnamese
- zh_CN/I18n/Fcitx5
- zh_CN/L10n
- zh_CN/L10n/Chinese