A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Sep 29, 2021 6:03 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: A fork for the time-zone database? by felixfix
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

The translated strings for internationalized programs have much better support for German than for Bengali. This is discriminatory since there are more Bengali speakers than German speakers. Unless someone steps up to translate more free software into Bengali, the only way to fix this systematic unfairness is to remove most of the German translations.

A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Sep 29, 2021 7:15 UTC (Wed) by cpitrat (subscriber, #116459) [Link] (1 responses)

And English is better supported in many projects. Let's remove all strings that are not translated in every language on the planet.

A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Sep 30, 2021 1:22 UTC (Thu) by devkev (subscriber, #74096) [Link]

And let's remove them in a release that's being urgently issued to fix a buffer overflow.