Subject: Re: how should we localize locale names?
From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Sat Mar 10 2001 - 05:25:54 CST
> I think you are needlessly criticizing Tim here, Tomas. At the
> moment, there's no need for translations of all the names of the
> various different languages. If people need to choose a language,
> they will want to have their language presented in their language.
> I'm sure that if there was some other reason to have the names of
> different supported languages, Tim would be willing to do the
> translations.
>
My appologies to Tim, I have got carried away there. However, I
believe very strongly that there is a need to have these translated.
The languages in UT_Language are not for people to choose their
own language, they are for people to set the lang property of text in
the document so that the spellchecker would use the correct
dictionary. The interface should be consistent; if the user choses
Czech interface he should get Czech interface, not a mixture of the
languages of the world. Quite apart from the fact that this, IMO,
makes the best sense as an overall localisation strategy, it is also
the simplest thing to do technically, and unless we do this we will
ultimately endup with a sub-standard user interface.
Tomas
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