[Kde-i18n-fa] Re: [linuxiran] farsi linux site

[Arash Zeini]

On Tuesday 24 June 2003 21:44, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> Mr Roozbeh Pournader from the FarsiWeb project at Sharif
> University of Technology has provided his word list and around
> 3000 translated messages of kde-base to Mr Arash Zeini long time
> ago, which Arash Zeini has wrote that he has used around 25% of
> the messages.

Dear Behdad,

Correction: Mr. Pournader did not provide a single translated string for 
kdebase. kdebase was entirely translated by FarsiKDE translators. Are you 
talking about kdelibs maybe?

Note: In an hostile attempt to take over the FarsiKDE project Mr. Pournader 
provided kdelibs, which was rejected by the KDE translator's team.
I am not sure if the file we based kdelibs upon contained 25% of his 
translations but after many reviews and revisions I doubt that even a small 
percentage of his translations remain in that package.

> BTW, RedHat 9 has GNOME translations from Roozbeh Pournader too.

Congratulations! Great work.

Hope to see more progress on your side.

Greetings,
Arash

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 14:42, Abbas Izad wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Could somebody check the mailing list at linux farsi:
> > > http://linux.aictc.com
> > >
> > > somebody has answered a question and claimed that RedHat explicitly
> > > has added farsi language in its distro that I don't know if it is
> > > 100% true!! Hasn't KDE don that? maybe I interpreted the text wrong.
> > > I have already pointed the answer towards FarsiKDE but it is good if
> > > somebody who could answer exactly who did what also put some words in
> > > there. I have, for example, read somewhere that sherif university and
> > > KDE have contributed a greate deal to add Farsi funktionality to
> > > linux and work still going on.
> >
> > This is a long story Abbas.
> > We have had history with the Sharif University.
> >
> > In a nutshell, what they did, was patching the Qt toolkit, so that in Qt
> > 3.0, we were able to write farsi in Qt and KDE applications. They
> > didn't contribute a single translation, to KDE 3.1
> >
> > They also hosted this mailing list, for a while. Then we parted ways,
> > bitterly I have to say.
> >
> > However, I know that recently Arash Zeini has made contact with the
> > Sharif University, and people behind the Natinal Farsi Linux Project.
> >
> > To sum everything, nither Sharif has done anything regarding translation
> > of KDE nor RedHat. Anyone familiar with Linux at all, wouldn't have
> > made such a statment, because RedHat doesn't have a single KDE
> > developer, and is generaly uninterested in KDE.
> >
> > Please provide me with the link to that tread in that mailing list. I
> > want to see who made that statement.
> >
> > Cheers

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