https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/51bcb740-9335-4985-92a9-92a5f1dd4ccd Internationalization (i18n) has long been one of GNOME’s strengths, enabling our desktop and applications to reach users across cultures, languages, and writing systems. Yet the expectations of a global audience continue to evolve. This talk revisits the fundamentals of GNOME’s internationalization process, clarifies the responsibilities shared between developers and translators, and highlights the linguistic and technical challenges of supporting more than 180 locales—from plural rules and grammatical variation to complex writing systems and RTL layouts. It also reviews the current state of our translation platform, Damned Lies, and discuss opportunities to modernize its workflow and tooling. Finally, the session opens the door to future work, including one of the most significant emerging topics in UI text design: gender‑neutral and inclusive writing across languages. Guillaume Bernard started as translator in the GNOME French Team in 2014. He’s now maintainer of Damned Lies, coordinator of the French Team and member of the i18n team to promote a clear internationalization over the project. GNOME is a free and open-source software environment project supported by a non-profit foundation. Together, the community of contributors and the Foundation create a computing platform and software ecosystem, composed entirely of free software, that is designed to be elegant, efficient, and easy to use. GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:04:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.kockatoo.org https://tube.kockatoo.org/lazy-static/avatars/75ca8476-e2c4-4f21-b5a3-a2d70922e464.png https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/51bcb740-9335-4985-92a9-92a5f1dd4ccd All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.kockatoo.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.