[Koha] [Koha-devel] NZ English Translation

[Nicole Engard]

This is a great idea! I actually have a list going that I can share of
terms that are different throughout.  We should certainly have
different English dictionaries to be the most user friendly.

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:17 PM,  <russ at russandsarah.gen.nz> wrote:
>  > Hi everyone,
>  >
>  >  Please forgive the re posting, but I think I managed to time my original
>  >  for when HDL was moving the lists.
>  >
>  >  Anyway here is my request again.
>  >
>  >  I would like to do a Koha Translation into NZ English. This way we can
>  >  manage some of the terms in the interface that those of us in this part of
>  >  the world don't use. Things like zipcode -> postcode, state -> region etc.
>  >
>  >  Can a en-NZ language code be setup please?
>  If we're going to start getting picky about English in the official
>  releases, and
>  having multiple variants, I'd suggest we first clean up the existing
>  English to a
>  specific variant so that we have something to work from, rather than the hodge
>  podge that's currently in /prog/en (it's currently a mixture of en-NZ/GB, en-FR
>  and en-US). 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?
>
>  Also, w/respect to en-NZ, isn't that the same or nearly the same as en-GB?
>
>  Cheers,
>
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