variant (sr@Latn) support

[Wouter van Heyst]

According to carlos it is possible to import/export .po files with variants, but there is no interface to reach them yet.

For the blender project, a Serbian Latin translation has been submitted upstream, but the current maintainers can't read the language. This is a problem with several other languages too, so a better solution might be to leverage rosetta translation teams and not arbitrarily accept/reject contributed translations. It would be nice if all languages were supported before that move.

[Jordi Mallach (jordi)]

Note that upcoming ca@valencia translations are going to suffer from this as well.

[Wouter van Heyst (larstiq)]

Are there any plans to work on this?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

The en_AU translation should be derived from en_GB, but with some small changes. This is currently not possible, and we really don't want to have to duplicate work.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

William, that's a different issue than the one we are reporting here.

A variant is a language like sr@Latn, for your concrete case, you are talking more of a 'derivation'.

The solutions are completely different because sr and sr@Latn are not reusing translations from each other.

Please, file a new bug about that concrete feature. It's something we will want to implement.

Wouter, we are evaluating this right now.

The spec to implement this feature is at https://launchpad.net/products/rosetta/+spec/language-variants-support

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Danilo and I started discussing about a way to implement this in Rosetta, we should get a final solution soon ready to be implemented.

[Ihar Hrachyshka (ihar-hrachyshka)]

What's the status of the bug resolution?

[Matthias Bauer (moeffju)]

Has there been any progress on this? We need both derivatives (de_DE and de_DE informal) and variants (like the ones mentioned here).

[bortis (bortis)]

Are there any updates? Still waiting to import new translations for a language variant into rosetta.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Bortis: you can import new translations with "variants", but they won't show up in the UI. We'll soon be fixing this though.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Fixed in db-stable r9633 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/db-stable/revision/9633>.

(I wrongly marked the bug #28900 in the submit message)