[asterisk-dev] [policy] Language specific prompts

[Philipp Kempgen]

Tzafrir Cohen schrieb:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:57:32AM -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>> Ever so often, we get requests on the bugtracker, stating that this or that
>> language is not pronounced correctly.  For English, Spanish, and French,
>> where we have standardized those prompts (and documented each), this
>> isn't a problem.  More recently, for someone who brought the Hebrew language
>> to Asterisk, I required the reporter to create an Open Document Spreadsheet
>> (commonly written by OpenOffice.org) detailing every single prompt, the module
>> in which it is required, and the native language script, to be used by a
>> native language speaker in creating a new set of prompts.
> 
> Off-topic: Is there a reason that document is not plain text?

>> I am proposing, as a matter of policy, that anybody wishing to make ANY
>> change whatsoever to multi-language support, that they should have to document
>> every single prompt in that native language, in a fashion that is identical to
>> the Hebrew document (which may be found in doc/lang/).

> Do you want something in the lines of:
> 
>   filename	meaning (English)	Words (original script)
> 
> The text of the English sound files often spans more than one line per
> entry. E.g. 5 lines or so for the "codezone".

What about CSV/TSV?
Or (X?)HTML with nothing but <table>, <tr>, <td> markup?


   Philipp Kempgen

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