[Freecats-Dev] Who to contact on the Linux side

[Henri Chorand]

Hi all,

I just received an interesting message from a translator who, like me, is
subscribed to Wordfast discussion list (see below). My original aim was to
obtain information about the localization-related available and how to
possibly (re-)launch a related project, ODoMoMoS (which I installed on
Source Forge and is sleeping since a few months).

Any volunteers among Free CATS project team & discussion list subscribers to
help collect info about who does what in the Linux world (KBabel and
whatever else)?

We need to know more about existing projects (and project leads' e-mail
addresses).

Simos, maybe you're the one among us who knows this world best.

Marilyn & I could then coordinate our communication efforts towards this
"area of interest".

Henri

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   Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:11:27 -0000
   From: "Marc Prior <address@hidden>" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Bible of the Localization Engineer

Hi Henry,

A few words on the Linux situation:

Most programs for Linux are written in C++. There are particular
mechanisms for extracting translatable text from these files and
creating catalogues of translations. This system has gained wide
acceptance, and there are a number of Linux-based translation memory
tools which exploit it.

As you would expect, most localization work on Linux is done by
volunteers. There are hundreds of such people; very few of them are
professional translators and most of them have probably never heard of
the Windows tools used for localization.

The best place to start looking for information on localization for
Linux is probably the Linux internationalization mailing list at
lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translation-i18n.

Hope this helps,
Marc