[Lazarus] Please remove Arabic language from the release version

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Sat Aug 4 19:08:19 CEST 2012


Am 2012-08-04 15:14, schrieb Schindler Karl-Michael:
> An important point is that reaching hobby programmers and pupils, which are not yet fluent in English. 
There is no need to be fluent in English only to understand the few menu settings. Also, meanwhile english is taught in nearly all countries in nearly all schools. And that has a reason. Globalization takes place everywhere. So why forcing to learn a program in the native language? If you start from scratch it is as easily learned as if you use your native language. And once you learned some english terms you will find them elsewere in other programs too.


>> Therefore I would vote for english as default too. Adding the other languages is a goodie but should have a very low priority.
>> Instead of investing time into translations it would be better to invest it into bug fixes.
> This assumes that a translator is also a programmer, which must not be the case.
But how can someone translate something he does not understand? This would be like a google translator and ends up with rediculuous terms which no one understands.


> However, for newbies starting as a translator has the actual advantage of a low barrier into the project.
Why is the barrier lower? Just the opposite. Familiar words from other context may even be misleading. You have to learn something new anyway. So why not start with english terms? If that's not possible then as a consequence you would have to change the english commands of the Pascal language too (as was done for Excel for example). But that's a real mess.





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