Taking French for example, there are a few sub-cultures around computers which developed diverging vocabularies. Picking volunteers here and there without addressing this problem in an organized way, soon in the project, might produce a distasteful mix of GNU programs, and possibly trigger endless quarrels among those who really care.
Keeping some kind of unity in the way French localization of GNU
programs is achieved is a difficult (and delicate) job. Knowing the
latin character of French people (:-), if we take this the wrong
way, we could end up nowhere, or spoil a lot of energies. Maybe we
should begin to address this problem seriously before GNU
gettext become officially published. And I suspect that this
means soon!
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