KDE Localization: Difference between revisions

The main resources for localization and other info regarding KDE's localization teams is at the KDE Localization website, so please check there for more information.

This wiki page provides an overview of localization at KDE.

Internationalization (i18n) vs. Localization (l10n)

What is the difference between internationalization and localization?

Generally speaking, programmers internationalize their software by writing applications so they can be run in any locale. Translation teams localize software by taking the internationalized applications and adapting them for a specific locale.

Localization Team Management Tool (LTMT)

During the l10n BoF at Desktop Summit 2011, we realized that we had duplicated services and code doing the some thing (at least this was true for the French and the Italian teams): managing the translation process, mainly file booking.

So, we joined our efforts to have a good working tool to manage the translation process which could extend existing l10n.kde.org website and get the best from existing tools.

Localization Team Management Tool

Localization Issues

Right-to-Left Support

Localization Teams

In the table below an overview of localization teams within KDE is provided; see the column "Team (language code)" for team-specific links.

For additional information, see the resources at KDE Localization website.

If the team of the language you are searching for is not here, please check the KDE Localization web site. If the language is also not there, contact [email protected] to request more information on how to create a new team.

The tables are ordered by language code, e.g., de Deutsch ('German') appears before el for Ελληνικά ('Greek').

Web Translation Teams

These languages are included in the translation list for kde.org.

Localization/Translation
	Team (language code)	Wiki	Chat	Mailing Lists
اللغات (Arabic)	Arabic Team (ar)	--	--	kde-l10n-ar
bosanski (Bosnian)	Bosnian Team (bs)	--	--	--
Català (Catalan)	Catalan Team (ca)	--	--	kde-i18n-ca
Català - Valencià (Catalan - Valencian)	Catalan (Valencian) Team (ca@valencia)	--	--	kde-i18n-ca
Český (Czech)	Czech Team (cs)	wiki.l10n.cz/wiki/Návody/Jak_překládat_Kde/	--	kde-i18n-cs
Deutsch (German)	German Team (de)	German (de)	--	kde-i18n-de, www-de
Ελληνικά (Greek)	Greek Team (el), Info			kde-i18n-el, lists.hellug.gr (INACTIVE)
English (British)	British English Team (en_GB)	--	--	kde-l10n-en_gb
Esperanto	Esperanto Team (eo), Info			kde-i18n-eo
Español (Spanish)	Spanish Team (es), Info	--	--	kde-l10n-es
Eesti (Estonian)	Estonian Team (et)
Euskara (Basque)	Basque Team (eu)	--	--	--
فارسی (Persian)	Persian Team (fa)			kde-i18n-fa
Suomi (Finnish)	Finnish Team (fi)	Finnish (fi)	--	kde-l10n-fi
Français (French)	French Team (fr), Info	French (fr)	--	kde-francophone
Galego (Galician)	Galician Team (gl)	Galician (gl)	--	--
Magyar (Hungarian)	Hungarian Team (hu)	--	--	kde-l10n-hu
Interlingua	Interlingua Team (ia), Blog	--	--	kde-l10n-ia
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)	Indonesian Team (id)	--	--	--
Italiano (Italian)	Italian Team (it), Tradurre per KDE	Italian (it)	Matrix: #kde-i18n-it:kde.org	kde-i18n-it
日本語 (Japanese)	Japanese Team (ja)	--	--	kde-jp
한국어 (Korean)	Korean (한국어) Team (ko)	Korean (ko)	--	kde-kr
Lietuvių (Lithuanian)	Lithuanian Team (lt)			kde-i18n-lt
मराठी (Marathi)	Marathi Team (mr)	--	--	--
မြန်မာ (Burmese)	Burmese Team (my)	--	--	kde-l10n-my
Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon)	Low Saxon Team (nds), [nds.i18n.kde.org Info]
Nederlands (Dutch)	Dutch Team (nl)	--	--	kde-i18n-nl
Norsk - nynorsk (Norwegian - nynorsk)	Norwegian Nynorsk Team (nn)	--	--	(see KDE Localization link)
Polski (Polish)	Polish Team (pl)	--	--	kdei18n-pl (at SourceForge)
Português (Portuguese)	Portuguese Team (pt)			kde-i18n-pt
Português brasileiro (Brazilian Portuguese)	Brazilian Portuguese Team (pt_BR)	--	Matrix: #kdebrasil-traducao	kde-i18n-pt_br
Русский (Russian)	Russian Team (ru)	--	--	kde-russian
Slovenčina (Slovak)	Slovak Team (sk)	Lokalizácia KDE (at sk.wikibooks.org)	#kde-sk on irc.i.cz	kde-sk (at linux.sk) (last post: 2013)
Slovenščina (Slovenian)	Slovenian Team (sl)	Wiki (at wiki.lugos.si)	--	lugos-slo (at lugos.si)
Svenska (Swedish)	Swedish Team (sv), Info		--	kde-l10n-tr
Türkçe (Turkish)	Turkish Team (tr)		--	kde-l10n-tr
ئۇيغۇرچە (Uyghur)	Uyghur Team (ug)
Українська (Ukrainian)	Ukrainian Team (uk)	--	--	kde-i18n-uk
正體中文 (Traditional Chinese)	Chinese Traditional Team (zh_TW)	--	--	--
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)	Chinese Simplified Team (zh_CN)	Simplified Chinese (zh-cn)	--	kde-china

Other

Localization/Translation
	Team (language code)	Wiki	Chat	Mailing Lists
Afrikaans	Afrikaans Team (af)	--	--	--
Assamese	Assamese Team (as)	--	--	--
Asturian	Asturian Team (ast)	--	--	--
Azerbaijani	Azerbaijani Team (az)	--	--	--
Belarusian	Belarusian Team (be)	--	--	--
Belarusian Latin	Belarusian Latin Team (be@latin)	--	--	--
Bulgarian	Bulgarian Team (bg)	--	--	--
Bengali	Bengali Team (bn)	--	--	--
Bengali (India)	Bengali (India) Team (bn_IN)	See Indian languages
Tibetan	Tibetan Team (bo)	--	--	--
Breton	Breton Team (br)	--	--	--
Chhattisgarhi	Chhattisgarhi Team (hne)	--	--	--
Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish)	Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish) Team (crh)	--	--	--
Kashubian	Kashubian Team (csb)
Welsh	Welsh Team (cy)
Danish	Danish Team (da)	--	--	--
Dzongkha	Dzongkha Team (dz)
Faroese	Faroese Team (fo)
Scottish Gaelic	Scottish Gaelic Team (gd)
Frisian	Frisian Team (fy)			kde-i18n-fry
Irish	Irish Team (ga)			(see KDE Localization link)
Gujarati	Gujarati Team (gu)	See Indian languages
Hausa	Hausa Team (ha)	--	--	--
Hebrew	Hebrew Team (he)	--	--	kde-l10n-he
Hindi (हिन्दी)	Hindi (हिन्दी) Team (hi)	[1] (at IndLinuX)	--	kde-l10n-hi
Croatian (Hrvatski)	Croatian (Hrvatski) Team (hr)	wiki.open.hr/index.php/KDE_lokalizacija (last updated 2010)	--	kde-croatia-list (at SourceForge)
Upper Sorbian	Upper Sorbian Team (hsb)
Armenian	Armenian Team (hy)
Interlingue	Interlingue Team (ie)	--	--	--
Igbo	Igbo Team (ig)	--	--	--
Icelandic	Icelandic Team (is)	--	--	--
Indian languages	--	KDE India	Matrix: #kde-indic:kde.org	kde-l10n-in
Georgian	Georgian Team (ka)
Kabyle	Kabyle Team (kab)
Kikongo	Kikongo Team (kg)
Kazakh	Kazakh Team (kk)
Khmer	Khmer Team (km)			(see KDE Localization link)
Kannada	Kannada Team (kn), Info			kde-l10n-kn
Kurdish	Kurdish Team (ku)
Kirghiz	Kirghiz Team (ky)
Latin	Latin Team (la)
Luxembourgish	Luxembourgish Team (lb)
Lao	Lao Team (lo)
Latvian	Latvian Team (lv)			(see KDE Localization link)
Maithili	Maithili Team (mai)			(see KDE Localization link)
Maori	Maori Team (mi)
Malagasy	Malagasy Team (mg)
Macedonian	Macedonian Team (mk)			(see KDE Localization link)
Malayalam	Malayalam മലയാളം Team (ml)	[http://wiki.smc.org.in/ Swathanthra Malayalam Computing സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് കെ.ഡി.ഇ മലയാളം]		(see KDE Localization link)
Mongolian	Mongolian Team (mn)
Marathi	Marathi Team (mr)
Maltese	Maltese Team (mt)
Malay	Malay Team (ms)
Nepali	Nepali Team (ne)
Norwegian Bokmål	Norwegian Bokmål Team (nb), Info			(see KDE Localization link)
Northern Sotho	Northern Sotho Team (nso)
Occitan	Occitan Team (oc)
Oriya	Oriya Team (or)
Punjabi	Punjabi Team (pa), Info		Matrix: #punlinux:matrix.org
Pashto	Pashto Team (ps)
Romanian	Romanian Team (ro)			kde-i18n-ro
Sanskrit	Sanskrit Team (sa)
Northern Sami	Northern Sami Team (se), Info (at skolelinux.no)			[email protected]
Kinyarwanda	Kinyarwanda Team (rw)
Sinhala	Sinhala Team (si)	--	--	kde-l10n-si
Albanian	Albanian Team (sq)	--	--	kde-i18n-sq
Serbian	Serbian Team (sr), Info			kde-i18n-sr
Swati	Swati Team (ss)
Swahili	Swahili Team (sw)			kde-l10n-sw
Tamil	Tamil Team (ta)			kde-l10n-ta
Telugu	Telugu Team (te)
Thai	Thai Team (th)			(see KDE Localization link)
Tigrinya	Tigrinya Team (ti)
Tajik	Tajik Team (tg)
Tamashek	Tamashek Team (tmh)
Toki Pona	Toki Pona Team (tok)
Tatar	Tatar Team (tt)
Tagalog	Tagalog Team (tl)
Urdu	Urdu Team (ur)
Uzbek	Uzbek Team (uz)
Uzbek (Cyrillic)	Uzbek (Cyrillic) Team (uz@cyrillic)
Venda	Venda Team (ven)
Vietnamese	Vietnamese Team (vi)	Vietnamese (vi)		kde-l10n-vi
Walloon	Walloon Team (wa)			write [email protected] (see KDE Localization link)
Xhosa	Xhosa Team (xh)
Yoruba	Yoruba Team (yo)
Chinese (Hong Kong)	Chinese Hong Kong Team (zh_HK)
Zulu	Zulu Team (zu)

External links

Localization (GitLab)

International Sites

ISO 639-1 Language Code (Wikipedia)

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 What is the difference between internationalization and localization?
-Generally speaking, programmers ''internationalize'' their applications by writing applications so they can be run in any locale. Translation teams ''localize'' the applications by taking the internationalized application and adapting it for a specific locale.
+Generally speaking, programmers ''internationalize'' their software by writing applications so they can be run in any locale. Translation teams ''localize'' software by taking the internationalized applications and adapting them for a specific locale.
 == Localization Team Management Tool (LTMT) ==