Re: Translating software into your conlang

Hi!

Santiago Matías Feldman writes:
>...
> Maybe this would be better done in Linux than Windows,
> because it's free software and you have the source
> code available... I don't know, maybe I'm saying
> stupid things and it could have been done also in
> Windows...
Under Linux, you don't even need the source code, since translating is
very well encapsulated in GNU gettext.  It's a great thing to start
there because translation will indeed be quite easy.

Yes, I've thought about this, but never did it for various reasons:

 a) I even switch off German translations under Linux because I just
    cannot stand bad translation, and even one badly translated
    message a day would be awful.  (Ok, *my* translation into a
    conlang would be perfect, of course.)  This doesn't mean that all
    English text messages I see are nice, but in English, I don't
    notice bad language so easily. :-)

    CLisp, written by a German, has quite interesting English messages:

        After #\# is #\{ an undefined dispatch macro character

    :-)

 b) I simply could not make up my mind about which program to translate...

**Henrik