Debian Installer fully translated into Kannada

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:40:00 +0100

I imagine my readers (except those from India) : "Kannada, WTF"?

No, this is not about D-I being translated into the variants of English and French spoken with a funny accent in a very big country located north of the United States of America, where they play ice hockey against mooses, wearing red policemen suits, with fur hats and drinking maple syrup.

Kannada is the official language of the state of Karnataka, in southern India. The state that has Bangalore, the IT-leading city in India as capital.

Kannada is spoken by about 45 million people, roughly the population of Spain.

And, since yesterday, thanks to a local group lead by Vikram Vincent, Debian Installer is fully translated to Kannada.

As of now, this is the 5th complete language of India along with Gujarati (46M speakers as first language), Hindi (180M, though some references mention 550M), Marathi (68M) and Tamil (62M).

Other supported languages of India are Telugu (99% translated, 70M), Bengali (95%, 71M plus 110M in Bangladesh), Punjabi (91%, 28M) and Malayalam (86%, 36M).

As you see, translators in India are really incredibly active and the free software community over there deserves some big light. We don't have many opportunities to meet up as traveling is not easy for contributors in India because, among other problems, of visa regulations for Indian citizens in many so-called western countries. So, really, I wanted to thank them again for this work.

2012 update 8 for Debian Installer localization

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:10:00 +0100

Kannada compeltes level 1 for the first time
Asturian, Bosnian complete level 1
Indonesian completes level 2
Progress for Dzongkha in level 2
Progress for Indonesian and Turkish in level 1

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

32 languages 100%: ar ast bg bs cs de el eo es fa fr gu hi it ja kk km kn ko mr nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv ta th uk zh_CN
3 languages 99%: si te tr>
1 language 98%: id
1 language 97%: eu
2 languages 96%: be he
5 languages 95%: bn dz et ro zh_TW
2 languages 94%: da ga
3 languages 93%: hu is lo
1 language 92%: sl
2 languages 91%: pa vi
others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

23 languages 100%: bg cs da de eo es fa fr he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk tr uk zh_CN
4 languages 99%: be sl sv th
6 languages 98%: ast dz ca eu pt_BR ro
1 language 96%: nb
2 langauges 95%: el fi
5 languages 94%: ar gl hr vi zh_TW
6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
9 languages 91%: ga gu ka km lt mk mr ta te
others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

30 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
2 languages 98%: hu uk
others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 17 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch,

2012 update 7 for Debian Installer localization

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:38:00 +0100

Persian completes level 1 and is now 100% everywhere
Polish completes level 2 and 3 and is now 100% everywhere
Turkish complete level 2 and is now 100% everywhere
Arabic, Greek and Hindi complete level 1
Serbian completes level 3
Progress for Estonian and Romanian in level 1
Big progress for Kannada in level 1: only sublevel 4 left incomplete
Progress for Asturian in level 2

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

29 languages 100%: ar bg cs de el eo es fa fr gu hi it ja kk km ko mr nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv ta th uk zh_CN
3 languages 99%: bs si te
2 languages 97%: eu tr
2 languages 96%: be he
7 languages 95%: bn dz et id kn ro zh_TW
3 languages 94%: ast da ga
3 languages 93%: hu is lo
1 language 92%: sl
2 languages 91%: pa vi
others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

22 languages 100%: bg cs da de eo es fa fr he is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk tr uk zh_CN
5 languages 99%: be id sl sv th
5 languages 98%: ast ca eu pt_BR ro
1 language 96%: nb
2 langauges 95%: el fi
5 languages 94%: ar gl hr vi zh_TW
6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
10 languages 91%: dz ga gu ka km lt mk mr ta te
others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

30 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
2 languages 98%: hu uk
others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 17 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch, , Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Turkish Simplified Chinese

Nine years after...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:19:00 +0100

...I closed the oldest bug report I ever reported that is^W was still opened.

2012 update 6 for Debian Installer localization

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:00:00 +0100

When you shake the tree, things happen..:-). I sent targeted update requests for level 2 (mostly espeakup and grub2).

Gujarati, Serbian and Tamil complete level 1
Bulgarian, Esperanto, Japanese complete level 2 and are now full 100%
Progress for Indonesian in level 1
Icelandic completes level 2
Simplified Chinese completes level 3 and is now full 100%
Hebrew completes level 3
First update for Wolof since ages

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

25 languages 100%: bg cs de eo es fr gu it ja kk km ko mr nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv ta th uk zh_CN
5 languages 99%: bs fa hi si te
3 languages 97%: ar eu tr
2 languages 96%: be he
4 languages 95%: bn dz id zh_TW
4 languages 94%: ast da ga ro
4 languages 93%: el hu is lo
1 language 92%: sl
3 languages 91%: et pa vi
others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

19 languages 100%: bg cs de eo es fa fr he is it ja kk nl pt ru si sk uk zh_CN
6 languages 99%: be da id sl sv th
4 languages 98%: ca eu pt_BR ro
1 language 96%: nb
2 langauges 95%: el fi
6 languages 94%: ar ast gl hr vi zh_TW
8 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne pl sr tr
10 languages 91%: dz ga gu ka km lt mk mr ta te
others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

28 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he is it ja kk nb nl pt ru sk sv th tr zh_CN
2 languages 98%: hu uk
others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 14 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Simplified Chinese

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