Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Cosmetic changes?

On 14/12/14 06:35, Khaled Hosny wrote:

> total disregard to things that are intrinsic to the quality of any textual
> material, let alone localisation.

Look at it this way.

There are 10,000 strings to translate.
At current rates, a professional translator will charge between
US$20,000 and US$250,000, depending upon the target language.

Convert 10,000 strings in the source to sentence case.
LibO is available in 111 languages, dialects, or other localizations.

That would cost a minimum of US$2,220,000 just to ensure that the
already correctly translated text is still correctly translated, if The
Document Foundation was being billed for it.

I don't know if any l10n projects still hire, and pay professional
translators. I do know that without professional translators, at least a
dozen l10n projects would never have had their first release.

jonathon


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