# Organisation of the document and covered topics

translators is aimed at registered translators and explains how they should organize their work in order to have the whole &debian; installation process localized in their own language. The so-called levels are explained in detail in this chapter with details about the specifics of each packages that is to be translated.

maintainers of this document explains how &d-i; packages maintainers should handle i18n in the packages they maintain.

new-language details the addition of a new language to &d-i; supported languages list, with a step-by-step process to be followed by the new translator and the &d-i; i18n coordination team.

technical explains how translations are handled, particularly for level 1 as part of the core &d-i; packages.

coordination explains the internal organisation of the &d-i; development team for i18n/l10n handling. The role of the i18n coordinators is explained in this chapter.

spellchecking explains mechanisms involved in the automated spellchecking processes for &d-i; related translations.

language-tasks explains how the so-called "language" tasks in &tasksel; are handled in &d-i;

Several appendices give more details about topics not directly related to &d-i; such as SVN basics, methods for translation work, gettext message catalogs tools, Debian bug reports and language codes.

This document is maintained up-to-date according to processes and methods by the &i18n-coords;.