On 2007-08-25, at 04:49 , Clytie Siddall wrote:
Thanks for your reply, Louis. :)
On 25/08/2007, at 5:21 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
On 2007-08-18, at 07:38 , Clytie Siddall wrote:
Sorry if I'm catching up with these a bit late. :(
On 14/03/2007, at 11:03 PM, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
The dropdown at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ displays
native
languages in the correct language. e.g. German is correctly
listed as
Deutsch, French as Français. We have tried to do this for each
language
listed where the NLCs have provided the correct spelling. I
agree that
having the website automatically recognize native languages
would be
nice but the following thread seems to indicate that doing this
would be
problematic:
http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?
list=dev&by=thread&from=1610035
The drop-down list on the docs homepage only lists _some_
languages as they are written in their own language. For example,
Vietnamese is only shown as "Vietnamese", not "Việt".
How do I correct this, please?
"Correct' is not the term I would use ;-)
Well, I would, because the list is not consistent. Either we use
the English names, or the native-language names, but not a mixture
of both, please. And a mixture of both is what we currently have.
Ach. I thought I had changed all that. I'll do it to all English, at
least for now.
The problem is this: if we do it for one, we really have to do it
for all. I'd love to be able to do that, and could ask every one
of the members to send in exactly what is required. If you want to
help get the NLC projects to contribute the appropriate graphics
or text (we could use the wiki for this, then cut and paste), be
my guest.
Note: The last time I did this, btw, I abandoned it after a while
for two reasons: inconsistency was confusing (Finnish vs. Suomi,
for example: different location on alphabet string) and it took a
lot longer to do; also, where does one stop? With the NLC or do we
go on to include the download pages? I'd love to have *all* the
pages sensitive to a user's linguistic configuration--but it's not
so trivial.
It's not a trivial fix, but I remember discussing content-sensitive
[1] pages on at least one of the OpenOffice.org lists some time
ago. It's a very worthwhile goal. Even if we have to do it one page
at a time, each page is a marked improvement in our accessibility.
I am not disagreeing. But I'm also not sure that the collabnet
infrastructure would even allow us to do it easily enough.
I decided to compile a more comprehensive list, combining the
languages supported by OpenOffice.org with those actively published
in Wikipedia, to represent our international users (a list of _all_
world languages is extremely long). It took all afternoon, but I've
managed to track down most of them. I hope people will add to and/
or correct the table. I've linked the page from the main NLC page
for now.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NLC:LanguageList
Thanks!
I hope the list and the wiki page will be useful. I didn't intend
to spend so much time on it, but I think it will be worth it in the
end. :)
Of course.
Louis
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