Das ist einer der unterhaltsamsten Vorträge die ich kenne zu Schei? encoding und den Problemen bei Localization und Internationalization: Dylan Beattie – There's no such thing as plain text. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajfb5LSbQVM #encoding #ascii #internationalization #localization #i18n #l10n
The GNOME Welcome website has a Translation page now. Check it out for basic information of the GNOME Translation Project, including where the translation takes place and the room for chat about i18n and l10n.
Thanks Victoria for working on this!
With so many English fan translations in progress for the Saturn, it can be hard to keep track of them all. I take a look at three of them — Wizardry 6, Magic School Lunar and Yu-No:
https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/07/10/translation-project-updates-wizardry-lunar-yu-no/
Looks like it is time to archive Virtaal, the first graphic translation tool I've ever used.
Damned Lies, the GNOME's translation platform, now supports third-party authentication. It is now possible join the translation effort using Fedora, Launchpad, GNOME SSO, GitHub, GitLab.com and Google.
Read more from Guillaume's awesome post at https://discourse.gnome.org/t/release-of-3rd-party-authentication-in-damned-lies/29694
4 Untranslatable Words Behind Patreon’s Internationalization Overhaul, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
Cx32 Cellular Localization Is Related to Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Breast Cells - #breastcancer #connexin32 #epithelialtomesenchymaltransition #nucleus #localization #cancer #connexins - https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0095452725010153
Keka v1.5.2 for #macOS is here!
Fixed Tahoe support
Improved support for RTL languages
For better icon support check out the betas:
https://www.keka.io/en/#beta
What’s new? https://r.keka.io/?v=1.5.2
Get it on https://download.keka.io
Thanks to all the translators ! In this update:
jacobpalm
VinBoiSoft
Marc66
nitrodox
kant
_maxsky
Gettext is adding support for custom flags in PO files!
The intention it to make it easier to handle workflows like AI pretranslation, review/approval, or project-specific checks — all while keeping flags reliably stored.
Details: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2025-06/msg00018.html
> IP tells you where the request comes from, that’s it. It doesn’t tell you what language the user wants, speaks, or even understands. It fails all the time — VPNs, travel, people living abroad, countries with multiple official languages. This isn’t cleverness, it gives outright annoyance.
https://vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05/17/language-detection/
And that's like 99.99% of all websites with the language selector...
@rauschma Hi, did you mention recently that a TypeScript union type is limited to 25 elements? I can't find your post about it. (Searching Mastodon is a bit of a black art, it seems.) Is that true or do I remember this incorrectly?
The reason is that I am experimenting with scheme for localizations where the allowed strings to localize are elements of a union type. A limit of 25 would be really bad.
https://codeberg.org/harald/pages/src/branch/main/src/ts/Translations.ts
Any native Swedish speakers interested in helping review this translation of https://jointhefediverse.net?
https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/pull/158
EDIT: Thank you all so much for sharing this, and to those who provided feedback!
I think we're good for now, but don't hesitate to suggest further improvements, to any of the translations.
Updated #Introduction for 2025 (Continued) - I love to #read. My favorite genres include #fantasy #scifi #mystery #travel #theology #history #sff.
I have a growing interest in #Solarpunk - I want to help grow more sustainable and life-giving communities where all can thrive.
I do #Bookmaking / #Bookbinding as a hobby - here is my portfolio so far: https://mas.to/@seanbala/113829332671203504
Other interests: #FolkMusic #Theatre #Musicals #Creativity #Degrowth #Localization #Community #Christianity
#books
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A healthy economy doesn't break if one big conglomerate goes down, for whatever reason.
Our economy is not healthy, but it could be. Local and Regional producers are the key to a sustainable future, not relying on exploitative food and goods shipped halfway around the world.
The caveat is that sweatshop conditions cannot be tolerated. It only works with living wages and reasonable incomes.
Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-06-23/commoning-diversity-and-small-scale-manufacturing/
#Localization #Community #Sustainability #Economy #DeGrowth #LivingWage #
Hi, if you speak any of the following languages, I could really use your help translating a few words for https://jointhefediverse.net.
فارسی,العربية,Bahasa Indonesia, Български, Català, Čeština, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Deutsch (DE), Español (ES), Esperanto, Euskara, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Português (BR), Русский, Slovenčina, Suomi, 臺灣正體中文
- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/118
- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/138
- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/137