Re: GNU info: bug: menu & iso-8859-2 chars problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:40:23 +0100 (MET)
> From: Mirsad Todorovac <address@hidden>
> 
> OK, I've signed the paper, but according to what the page says it can take
> between two weeks and a month before it's processed. But texinfo 'po'
> files for de_DE domain looked so small that I've got the impression it'll
> be a weekend labor. (I know that legal work can't be avoided because there
> are some evil people out there, mais oui ...). Do you think we can do
> something in the mean time - I mean a month of waiting is something that
> discourages entusiasm, and you can ask Frank for he trusted me with GNU
> Pascal manual translations in regard to copyrights (of course, I will not
> fail their trust, God forbid).

You need to talk to the people who maintain the Translation Project.
Please send this question to address@hidden

> > When you submit the translation for some project to the TP Robot, the
> > package maintainer is notified automatically, so your .po file will
> > be included in the next release.
> 
> Well, I must confess I wanteed to do it the easy way - simply by hacking
> German po files and replacing the German text with Croatian. Would that do
> the trick or am I a heretic?

It doesn't matter whether you start from scratch or from another
translation.  Translation of several dozens of messages is a
formidable work (I know: I just finished translating texinfo.pot into
Hebrew ;-), so it should in general have a copyright assignment.

> (Of course, in ideal world I would translate also the manuals

You don't have to.  These are two different issues.