Syncing up the MIME databases

[Jonathan Blandford]

Christian Rose <menthos at menthos.com> writes:

> fre 2003-11-07 klockan 23.17 skrev Jonathan Blandford:
> > > I'm going to go ahead and set this up then.  I'll probably just dump the
> > > current translations and hope that people can get the po files
> > > translated.  If the translators want the original xml file to populate
> > > the po files, I can provide it.
> > 
> > I've gone ahead and done this.  You'll need intltool to generate this
> > from CVS, but I'm planning on keeping the freedesktop.org.xml file
> > checked into CVS to make life easier.  I'm going to add those mime-types
> > as discussed next.
> 
> I've noticed some inconsistancies with these mime descriptions,
> primarily with casing (some descriptions use lowercase, others mix
> upper- and lowercase) and differences in the use of plural/singular.
> 
> Are there any plans to go through these descriptions and standardize
> them with regards to things like this?

I didn't have any plans to do this, as I haven't really read through the
strings.  I doubt there would be serious objections outside of the
translators to doing this, though.

Thanks,
-Jonathan