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Spanish -- what variaties do we support?
A question we received on Facebook that I did not have an answer for.
Do we support Latin American Spanish?
I know there are differences in the spoken language, but are there
many in writing?
Is there any demand for a translation?
Do we have spell checking dictionary support for Latin American Spanish?
Sorry if the question is confusing. I'll report back what you tell me
to the user on Facebook.
-Rob
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Re: Spanish -- what variaties do we support?
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
Rob Weir wrote:
> A question we received on Facebook that I did not have an answer for.
> Do we support Latin American Spanish?
There are many people who know the issue better than me, but at the
moment we distribute one Spanish version and we host a variety of
Spanish dictionaries on the Extensions site.
> I know there are differences in the spoken language, but are there
> many in writing?
> Is there any demand for a translation?
I don't recall anyone writing to this list and volunteering to make a
variant of the Spanish UI translation.
> Do we have spell checking dictionary support for Latin American Spanish?
Many, many of them. Search "diccionario" on the Extensions site:
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/search?query=diccionario&sort_by=field_project_stats_year&sort_order=DESC
You will see dozens of variants of the same dictionary, released by the
same project and specialized for specific countries/cultures.
Regards,
Andrea.
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Re: Spanish -- what variaties do we support?
Posted by Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org> wrote:
> No we have general spanish guidelines and are as standard as we can. I
> think is a better job than trying to break down into different
> coloquialisms which exist not just between countries but also within the
> same country.
>
> What we support is the dictionaries and wordbooks, this is where the
> localization happen. There is a group that work on these dictionaries.
>
> https://forja.rediris.es/projects/rla-es/
>
> From my point of view, unless a language becomes impossible to make sense
> or understand, then it needs to be changed, otherwise I think is
> non-critical and users can adapt with ease. Also a big issue of changing
> the UI to different regionalizations is because we 'break' documentation.
> Which has always been a dragging issue not just for spanish community but
> for open source in general. Lack of documentation is an issue as a hole, to
> also undertake a fragmentation of it in order to support certain
> differences.
>
Thanks!
-Rob
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> A question we received on Facebook that I did not have an answer for.
>>
>> Do we support Latin American Spanish?
>>
>> I know there are differences in the spoken language, but are there
>> many in writing?
>>
>> Is there any demand for a translation?
>>
>> Do we have spell checking dictionary support for Latin American Spanish?
>>
>> Sorry if the question is confusing. I'll report back what you tell me
>> to the user on Facebook.
>>
>> -Rob
>>
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>
>
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> Alexandro Colorado
> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
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Re: Spanish -- what variaties do we support?
Posted by Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org>.
No we have general spanish guidelines and are as standard as we can. I
think is a better job than trying to break down into different
coloquialisms which exist not just between countries but also within the
same country.
What we support is the dictionaries and wordbooks, this is where the
localization happen. There is a group that work on these dictionaries.
https://forja.rediris.es/projects/rla-es/
>From my point of view, unless a language becomes impossible to make sense
or understand, then it needs to be changed, otherwise I think is
non-critical and users can adapt with ease. Also a big issue of changing
the UI to different regionalizations is because we 'break' documentation.
Which has always been a dragging issue not just for spanish community but
for open source in general. Lack of documentation is an issue as a hole, to
also undertake a fragmentation of it in order to support certain
differences.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org> wrote:
> A question we received on Facebook that I did not have an answer for.
>
> Do we support Latin American Spanish?
>
> I know there are differences in the spoken language, but are there
> many in writing?
>
> Is there any demand for a translation?
>
> Do we have spell checking dictionary support for Latin American Spanish?
>
> Sorry if the question is confusing. I'll report back what you tell me
> to the user on Facebook.
>
> -Rob
>
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>
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