I reordered the language list, and fixed the spacing to line separator. Take into account that styles may change in the future, as there are requests to use Bootstrap library, or sorts.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 07/09/2014 02:30 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > > On 08/07/2014 Tal Daniel wrote: >> >>> Regarding the ORDER of languages, we have a tie. Should we take that to a >>> VOTE? -- >>> >> >> No need to. It's a minor thing. I think that the bottom line is: sort by >> something that is visible and sort in a way that a native speaker of a >> language based on a non-Latin alphabet would find normal. So long as it >> has a logic, I'm fine with that and I think others will be too. >> > > +1 > Whatever the sorting will look like, it has to be traceable for the user. > > > Indeed here there are different conventions around, for example >> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/locale.aspx (just to pick one with a long >> list, but any "corporate" site will do) lists all Latin first, then >> Greek, Cyrillic and others, by alphabet. While >> > > wow, that must be a nearly complete list. ;-) > > I've done some more researching and found the following website with the > same sorting rule: > > - Youtube (see footer) > - Facebook (see header) > - Google+ (see footer) > - Twitter (see header) > > All sort first via Latin, then Cyrillic, then Arabic, then Indian, then > Far-East. > > So, the bigger and most known websites seem to have a common sorting. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer for some reason puts Hebrew >> between "Italiano" and "Basa Jawa" (does this sound "natural" to you?). >> > > Of course, it's again the sorting via ISO codes. Just have a look into the > HTML code: :-P > > it - Italiano > he - Hebrew > jv - Basa Jawa > > But to answer your (rhetorical ;-) ) question: No, I would expect a more > visible and therefore reasonable sorting. > > BTW: > It's the same for Mozilla (see the language button in the footer). Even > when the visible result is different to Wikipedia. > > > We also expose ISO codes, so sorting by codes could be a way to make it >> simpler. Whatever works best for you, Tal, will probably work for us too! >> > > @Tal: > > Finally: > > It seems the common sorting rule is first via Latin, then Cyrillic, then > Arabic, then Indian, then Far-East (more or less this way as I cannot > interprete every character set of this world). > > So, I would suggest to sort this way, too. > > And yes, I know that I wrote something different in my previous mails. But > after looking closer on other websites I think I have to change my opinion. > > Marcus > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- טל
