On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:12:57 -0400, Chuck Houpt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it would be useful to default PREFERRED_LANGUAGE based on > LANG/LANGUAGE, because then both the UI and documents would be > displayed in the user's favorite languages. > > The patch includes code and doc changes (against 2.8.7dev.4). Let me > know if you have any questions or comments. This sounds very good to me. In fact, I make a similar attempt with a wrapper script in Debian for quite a long time. On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:13:44 +0900, Henry Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an aside, what may be the preferred language in one application may not > be what is preferred in another. It may also be that LANG is already hacked > to the wrong language just to get some other app to work right. This looks to me a bit exceptional case. On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:29:02 +0000 (UTC), Thorsten Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > • I'm fighting stupid by-scheme internationalisation in applications since > quite a while, because for example, professional German computer users > really despise translated applications (and websites) since they can read > English, but most translations basically suck But I'm afraid normal Japanese users don't understand English so well. For them, the patch might be very useful. > • Translated websites suck even more (and usually hide other content) This is a problem of web administators but irrelevant to the patch, isn't this? Unless there is crucial deficiency, I think the patch will be very useful for lynx. Regards, 2007-4-23(Mon) -- Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org> Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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