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 Reference - Chapter 8. I18N and L10N
Debian Developer's Reference - 6.6.2. General recommendations for authors and translators
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I18n/ToDo (outdated: to be rewritten after I18n/Sprint2012)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
Localization teams
Issues about internationalization:
IRC: #debian-i18n
Maililng list: debian-i18n
Wiki pages:
Mailing lists:
Mailing lists about localization, translation, and support for users that don't speak English.
Resources
See also
Debian international official website
Content negotiation - how to display a webpage in your preferred language
Wiki pages
List of English 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
- be/L10n/Belarusian/SpellCheck
- 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