Archive for August, 2007

Philips boycotted in the Brazilian state of Piauí

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Paulo Zottolo, president of Philips in Latin America, declared recently that we shouldn’t think Brazil is a Piauí, in the sense that it doesn’t matter; no one would mind if Piauí stopped existing. The scoff caused the company to be boycotted by in the state by Armazém Paraíba and other large department stores. Paulo Zottolo was repudiated by the state governor, Wellington Dias, and many other politicians, as well as students, even from other states. Ivete Sangalo, famous singer and Philips poster girl, didn’t make comments on the controversy.

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Improved spell checking of gettext message catalogs for Vim

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Dwayne Bailey released the day before yesterday the new version of the gettext message catalog syntax highlight for Vim. This new version restricts the spell checking to the translated messages, i. e., the new script stops Vim from marking the rest of the PO file as incorrect (original messages, msgid and msgstr etc.). Now it’s worth paying attention when Vim says the word is misspelled!

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My translation (better, revision) routine

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

My colleagues know I do more revision than translation work. I’d rather be translating, but it’s important for the translators’ motivation that their work receive the due attention, i. e. that their translations be reviewed and committed as soon as possible. This article describes my routine as a member of the Brazilian GNOME translation team.

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