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

[Mirsad Todorovac]

Hi, Eli, Karl, people,

[First, sorry about that joke - I simply couldn't resist, although I may
assure you peace in ISrael will continue to be subject of my prayers.]

> To be able to submit translations for GNU projects to the Translation
> Project (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/) is to sign
> legal papers that assign the copyright for your translations to the
> FSF.  Details can be found on the above Web page and by sending email
> to address@hidden  As there doesn't seem to be a Croatian team (or, if
> it exists, it didn't translate anything yet, since the Croatian cell
> in the Translation Matrix is empty), you could simply appoint
> yourself to be the Croatian Team Leader.

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).

> 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?

(Of course, in ideal world I would translate also the manuals, but 1. I'm
not promising anything 2. first things first 3. there are GNU packages
that have more users, so I thought how they should have priority but yes
4. having manuals for info reader in Croatian would be nice)

Regards,
Mirsad

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CARNet, UNI-ZG, Croatia                                   address@hidden
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