[Kde-l10n-es] Mexican Spanish

[Guillermo Amaral]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:08:53AM -0700, Guillermo Amaral wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:55:26AM -0400, Eduardo Sanchez wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 13:33:44 Guillermo Amaral wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 02:30:56PM -0300, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> > > > On 17/08/2010, Guillermo Amaral <gamaral at kde.org> wrote:
> > > > >   Now, I'm by no means a translator (I'm a code monkey at heart), but I
> > > > > 
> > > > > would
> > > > > 
> > > > >   love to know if it would make sense to use es_ES as a starting base
> > > > >   for the es_MX team. Is that possible or even allowed?
> > > > 
> > > > The current translation is 'es', not 'es_ES'. There shouldn't be any
> > > > Spain-specific terminology in it.
> > > 
> > >   Oh good to know! Thanks Nicolas.
> > 
> > Sorry for asking this, but... is forking the 'es' translation into 'es_MX' 
> > convenient?
> > 
> > Can you identify some areas of the KDE software where 'es_MX' and plain old 
> > 'es' differ and would require a different translation?
> 
>   I use only English my self. But I do get a lot of requests for es_MX during my
>   talks. I'm sure there is some words that might be different from ES to es_MX.
>   Perhaps it's just people wanting to customize it so as to feel more comfortable
>   with KDE SC.
> 
>   But, what I can do is send people interested in contributing to the es_MX here,
>   so they can instead contribute to ES. I see no harm in that and I'm sure
>   they could identify any differences, never hurts to mix it up a bit I always
>   say. :-)

 OK So I talked it over with the interested parties and would love them to
 start working on ES instead of having to split off. Who would be the
 coordinator? So I may send them that way. :)

>   Do you guys have any Mexican contributors yet?
> 
> > On the other hand, however, I can see how necessary are the translations into 
> > indigenous languages.
> 
>   Agreed, I'm also very interested in this as well.

-- 
gamaral