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**Brage Fuglseth** @bragefuglseth@fosstodon.org · 2025-03-17T17:16:56.000Z

Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@fosstodon.org

I’ve published a string freeze announcement for #Fretboard and #Keypunch:

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/upcoming-keypunch-and-fretboard-releases/27773?u=bragefuglseth

They will both get new releases in two weeks.

GNOME Discourse · 6dUpcoming Keypunch and Fretboard releasesHi! On 2025-03-31T22:00:00Z (UTC), Keypunch and Fretboard will both see new releases on Flathub. If you’d like for these to be fully translated into your language, now would be a good time to ensure that happens. There won’t be any string changes during this period. Feel free to report any untranslatable strings or missing context in the issue tracker of the affected app.

#GNOME #GNOMECircle #i18n

**Fedora Project** @fedora@fosstodon.org · 2025-03-02T08:00:00.000Z

Fedora Project @fedora@fosstodon.org

Help us test internationalization for Fedora 42! Testing is running from Mar 4-10.

https://fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-fedora-linux-42-i18n-test-week/

Fedora Magazine · Mar 2Contribute at the Fedora Linux 42 i18n Test Week - Fedora MagazineAnnouncement and call to participate in the Fedora Linux 42 i18n test week, Tuesday, March 04 to Monday, March 10, 2025

#Fedora #i18n #Linux

Mar 3

**awb** @awb@mastodon.sdf.org · Feb 17

awb @awb@mastodon.sdf.org

Speaking of "tail -c". There is a lot one could say about how complicated Unicode in general and UTF-8 in particular are. But it's also easy to forget how difficult it was for POSIX systems to get there. Unix wasn't even really 8-bit clean until SVR4 and 4.4BSD. It essentially was a 7-bit ASCII system throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

#posix #unix #i18n

Feb 17

**Sebin Nyshkim** @SebinNyshkim@meow.social · Feb 13

Sebin Nyshkim @SebinNyshkim@meow.social

I noticed the German translation of Planify [flathub.org] could use some improvements. Some of the text strings made no sense and were outright wrong about how the app works.

Then I noticed some peculiarities of some of the source text strings — lots of duplicates, differing in capitalization, weird phrasings, etc.

Went into the code to investigate in hopes of eliminating duplicates and learn the context in which they're used.

Let's just say this is me right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

Flathub - Apps for LinuxInstall Planify on Linux | FlathubForget about forgetting things

#i18n #internationalization #l10n

Feb 13

**Pierre-Yves Lapersonne** @pylapp@framapiaf.org · Feb 11

Pierre-Yves Lapersonne @pylapp@framapiaf.org

« Econception logicielle, pourquoi et comment coder "green" »

https://speakerdeck.com/pylapp/econception-logicielle-pourquoi-et-comment-coder-green-masterclass-universite-toulouse-iii

#ecodesign #ecoconception #opensource #a11y #i18n #androiddev #iosdev #webdev #VieDeDev

Support sous CC-BY-SA

Speaker DeckEconception logicielle, pourquoi et comment coder "green" (Masterclass Université Toulouse III)By Pierre-Yves Lapersonne

Feb 11

**Felicitas Pojtinger** @pojntfx@mastodon.social · Jan 8

Felicitas Pojtinger @pojntfx@mastodon.social

The example web 2.0 best practices app I'm working on is now fully translated in:

- English (US)
- English (UK)
- French (France)
- French (Québec) (yes it uses courriel)
- German

#i18n is actually lots of fun for language learning

Jan 8

**Tom Morris** @tommorris@mastodon.social · Jan 7

Tom Morris @tommorris@mastodon.social

Presumably, if said website didn't implement any kind of analytics (perhaps because they didn't wish to worry about the consequences of GDPR/DPA, CCPA et al.), the owner may be blissfully unaware of whether their site "has links with the United Kingdom" (per section 4).

Given the extra-territorial effect, any tool #Ofcom produces is gonna need some major #i18n. What an unholy mess.

Jan 7

**Heliograph** @Heliograph@mastodon.au · Dec 26, 2024

Heliograph @Heliograph@mastodon.au

TIL #i18n

Screenshot of search result
Internationalization (i18n) is the process of designing and developing a product to be adaptable for various languages and cultural settings.
210ct 2024
https://lokalise.com > what-is-i18n

Beginner's guide to internationalization (i18n) - Lokalise

Dec 26, 2024

**Adrian Roselli** @aardrian@toot.cafe · 2024-11-11T00:05:00.000Z

Adrian Roselli @aardrian@toot.cafe

Localization (#l10n) and internationalization (#i18n) are more than just translating words. Colors, idioms, fonts, layouts, imagery, structure, etc are all affected (some of which I learned the hard way running a localization company & product).

Eric has some examples of iconography:
https://ericwbailey.website/published/dont-forget-to-localize-your-icons/

ericwbailey.website · Nov 11, 2024Don’t forget to localize your iconsCulture impacts how icons are interpreted, understood, and used.

Nov 13, 2024

**Vivien** @gugurumbe@mastouille.fr · Oct 21, 2024

Vivien @gugurumbe@mastouille.fr

Why we must internationalize the source code (yes) of computer programs, a concrete example: ggplot has both scale_color_continuous and scale_colour_continuous (note the british letter u).

#i18n #r #ggplot

Oct 21, 2024

**Andrew Wood** @ivarch@vivaldi.net · Oct 6, 2024

Andrew Wood @ivarch@vivaldi.net

Here is a tool to annotate PO translation files using LibreTranslate, so that project maintainers can make sure the human-provided translations look plausible, even when they don't speak the target languages.

https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/po-translation-auto-assistant

I developed this to be able to vet submitted translations for Pipe Viewer and other projects, to have some confidence that the submitter understood each string they translated in the context I'd intended, and to limit the likelihood of malicious mistranslations or vandalism.

It relies on LibreTranslate, but the project README outlines how to quickly install that on your local machine.

The project is hosted on the @Codeberg platform and was developed with their Translathon (https://codeberg.org/codeberg/translathon-2024) in mind.

Codeberg.orgpo-translation-auto-assistantRead a PO file and annotate it using LibreTranslate, so a project maintainer can check that the human-provided translations are plausible.

#FOSS #FLOSS #Translation

Oct 6, 2024

**chfkch** @chfkch@ruhr.social · Sep 30, 2024

chfkch @chfkch@ruhr.social

Is anybody using #FluentRS in their #RustLang project? I am thinking about setting it up for the upcoming #CodeBerg #Translathon.

I was thinking of using #GetText but it seems outdated and not very friendly.

#Fluent #Rust #i18n

Sep 30, 2024

**Andrew Wood** @ivarch@vivaldi.net · Sep 28, 2024

Andrew Wood @ivarch@vivaldi.net

Pipe Viewer needs your help to work better in non-English locales.

If you speak more languages than English, please consider helping translate Pipe Viewer's documentation and error messages.

Thanks to @Codeberg you can do this through a Weblate interface, straight from your web browser, here: https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/pv/ - no programming required.

If you don't have a Codeberg account yet, registration is quick and free.

Currently, Pipe Viewer has translation files for French, German, Polish, and Portuguese, all in various states of completeness. I'd love to get these up to date. And adding more languages is simple - just let me know.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Codeberg Translatepvpv is being translated into 5 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.

#FLOSS #FOSS #Weblate

Sep 28, 2024

**Codeberg.org** @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de · Sep 28, 2024

Codeberg.org @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de

Do you hope for better translation coverage in your projects?

Find all the details here: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/translathon-2024#readme

Find the event: https://codeberg.codeberg.page/Events/events/2024/10-12_translathon/

Codeberg.orgtranslathon-2024An event repository to manage Codeberg's Translathon on October 12 and 13, 2024.

#Weblate #translation #localization

Sep 28, 2024

**grindhold** @grindhold@23.social · Sep 25, 2024

grindhold @grindhold@23.social

#flohmarkt goes international!
we have finished #i18n and are now ready for #localization

These are the five #language s we're starting with! If you want to help with #translation s, you can do so under https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/flohmarkt

if you want to add another locale, open an issue on codeberg and we'll hit you up :)

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/issues

Codeberg Translateflohmarktflohmarkt is being translated into 6 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.

Sep 25, 2024

**Stewart Russell** @scruss@xoxo.zone · Sep 20, 2024

Stewart Russell @scruss@xoxo.zone

I really love it when websites guess my language wrongly. Today, it's OpenLibrary that decided I wanted all text in Sardu (Sardinian: language code "sc")

I have my browser language set to Scots (language code "sco") and I guess OpenLibrary doesn't know that some languages don't have two-letter codes ...