Leonardo Fontenelle

Today there was another release of GnuCash, a free software for finance management for Small Office and Home Office. Like the previous one, this version has few new resources, maybe because it’s quite complete. While version 2.0 was marked by the update to GTK+ 2, GnuCash 2.2’s differential is the port for Windows.

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The title is a parody of Bruno Boaventura’s wedding announcement. Each culture has its own date format, which impairs international communication, and sometimes even local communication.

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If you care about l10n (localization), i18n (internationalization) and translation, you must subscribe to Planet i18n, aggregated by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Wouter Bolsterlee, thank you for the tip!

In two weeks begins GUADEC, the largest international GNOME conference. I won’t be able to participate, by I leave two suggestions:

• Og Maciel’s talk about collaboration between translation teams. The collaboration between the Brazilian Ubuntu and GNOME translation teams has been quite successful, and I hope it happens again inside and outside Brazil.
• A tutorial about localization no GNOME. It’s translation on GNOME Love Day!

That’s right, we finished translating the User Guide to Portuguese as spoken in Brazil!

This is the most important help document in GNOME, but was untranslated until 2006. That year the Brazilian GNOME translation team started a combined effort, coordinated by Raphael Higino, resulting in the translation of two thirds of the Guide. This year I took the front, and after some months I finally sent the translation of the last untranslated chapter. Now we depend on the package maintainers to release version 2.18.3 this week…

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