August 2016 - Inkscape Translators

Arabic update
by Abdelhak Sidi Ali Mebarek 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Hello again, I hope you all are fine, In order to do things well, I found that it was written "إنكسكيب" in wikipedia arabic, which means that it should be read a little bit like "inkskip" because of the absence of tashkeel (Arabic has a thing named "tashkeel", little symbols on top or bottom of letters that are in some way the equivalent of vowels in latin languages). Should i write it as it is in wikipedia, or follow a phonetic transcription to make the arabic pronounciation closer ? (if it is the case, i'll also need a phonetic transcription of "inkscape", i don't know where to find it) I began translating an empty .po file to arabic, slowly to avoid mistakes, and hopefully it will be good (seems to take a lot of time tough). For the style patch file, i think it's a little bit too early for this, i'll submit a bug report when the time will be adequate. Have a good day/night everyone :D

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English FAQ is becoming Brazilian
by Sylvain Chiron 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Hi, Testing the website, I noticed that the beginning of the English FAQ is now in Brazilian Portuguese in the draft side. Maren, could you revert that mistake of our dear Bob? The translation is a bit longer on the Brazilian Portuguese page. -- Sylvain

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I'm new here
by Abdelhak Sidi Ali Mebarek 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Hello, I hope you all are fine ! So, as Mr. Hachmann adivsed me, i'm sending this e-mail to introduce myself. I'm looking forward to contribute (obviously) to the translation part, and this in two languages : French, and perhaps Arabic. I'm an 18 years old from Oran, Algeria. I'm starting engineering studies this year. I started touching graphic design back in 2009 trying every single tool of GIMP, manipulating images, then it was the graphic creation; i also learned some coding and had some experience in front-end development, but that's not the point. In resume, 3 years ago, and exactly the day i discovered and understood what Inkscape is, changed my life, my approach to design including my abilities. Naturally, it's like a duty to contribute to such a project, even with the smallest thing i could do, and i hope that i will :) Have a good day/night eveyone, i would be pleased to have some responses and advices if you can, please. Cheers from Algeria Peace Abdelhak S,

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