-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06-02-2005 23:31, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote:
> Another idea I had before - and maybe this is what you really meant - is > to have something like two different locales for each language: one > plain (for dummies, say fr or en) and one talkative for experts (say > fr_ex or en_ex). However, I don't consider its achievement very > realistic. Actually, that sounds not so stupid to me. Originally (as I understand the history of it) locales were designed to be singular - either one or the other at a time. Today you can declare a an ordered list of several locales. Unfortunately some programs may not handle that correctly (or so I read somewhere a warning about). Well, if we can weed out the programs not handling multiple locales correct (or I am not correct in the above ;-) ) then the infrastructure seems splendid for tagging language "variants". So it seems to take the following moves: 1. Make sure multiple prioritized locales are generally supported(1) 2. Make theme-handling of KDE and others get "inspired" by locales. 3. Make debian-installer ask about language "variants". (1) It seems debian-installer does this currently, so maybe it works already. My freshly installed laptop has /etc/environment set to "da_DK:da:en_GB:en" even though I did not set that myself. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er n�r: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCBzGwn7DbMsAkQLgRAk9UAJ92t1s33EDUJLMaYsByhjLrOy1CiQCeIyR6 2UA1ZOSUokDb4jb6qUOfIdM= =mHOD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
