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Also, w/respect to en-NZ, isn't that the same or nearly the same as en-GB?

No, just like en-AU is slightly different. There are terms that are used in the interface that are slightly different for each country. Take for example of the super set that includes the city a person lives in. In the US,AU and others this is a State In the UK and possibly others this is a County In Canada, and others this is a Province In NZ we use the term Region Some countries use postcode, others zipcode. The most problematic term is the use of the word "patron", but that could be the subject of a different thread. What I was looking for is a way to give certain features and fields, particularly around addresses a different name so they are meaningful to the local audience where they are being used. At one stage I talked to a number of people (mostly off list) and it seemed that having a separate translation would be the best way to go. This translation may only have a dozen different "translated" terms to the default en theme, but it would make more sense and be more usable to the location using it. The emphasis on being more usable.If there is another way to do this then all good. Maybe this is using the translation framework as a hack. But it seemed to me to be a simple way that we could make the installation more usable to more people without much effort. Cheers, Russel

Firstly, apologies for the cross list posting. I didn't realise that all the other lists had been copied in. Seems that this is a bigger deal than I originally thought.

The best way to do that would be to have some kind of official language dictionary for library terms ...

Fortunately, there's a free Dictionary for Library and Information Science that we can avail ourselves of: http://lu.com/odlis/. Would anyone be interested in 'cleaning up' the English language strings in accordance with ODLIS?

I think the point is that there is no official language dictionary for library terms. As HDL has pointed out, different libraries use different terms for the same function, even in the same language in the same country. I don't have a hard copy of the ODLIS dictionary, so I can't see the full methodology behind it's development, but from reading the back cover print on the Amazon, I can see that was created by a librarian at a University in the USA. I think it makes it a great resource to use to standardise the naming conventions in an en-US translation. Doing this work is desirable, but does not meet the needs of what I would like to achieve with a translation that makes sense here in NZ. I would like to translate some of the terms that make sense in the US, to those that are relevant here. I don't think it is a big job, but the feedback I have received has been that it would make a difference to the usability of the system. I'd at least like to try it out. Can an en-NZ code be created on translate.koha.org please? Cheers, Russel