Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:02:43PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:50:07AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:25:26AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > I don't think a two-stage selection is all that necessary. That seems > > > > like added

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:17:39PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:02:43PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Although the difference isn't that large in the case of "nl_BE" vs. > > "nl_NL" (thanks to the euro), there is a difference; so even if in a > > given case, assi

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:50:07AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:25:26AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > I don't think a two-stage selection is all that necessary. That seems > > > like added complexity for little benefit; the list is only made a little > > > long

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:25:26AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I don't think a two-stage selection is all that necessary. That seems > > like added complexity for little benefit; the list is only made a little > > longer by including all locales in a single list, and the fewer > > question

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-17 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 15.XII.2003 18:14 Christian Perrier wrote: > > I don't really understand your point finally. You seem to put some > irony, but I'm afraid I don't catch it Sorry, that was only a joke. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-16 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:56:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > > > The maintainer of language-env is japanese and uses the following order: > > > > 0 : C ( C, native computer programming ) > > > 1 : be (Bielaruskaja,Belarusian) > > > 2 : bg (Bulgarian) > > > 3 : ca (Catala,Cata

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-15 Thread Geert Stappers
> > > The maintainer of language-env is japanese and uses the following order: > > 0 : C ( C, native computer programming ) > > 1 : be (Bielaruskaja,Belarusian) > > 2 : bg (Bulgarian) > > 3 : ca (Catala,Catalan) > > 4 : da (Dansk,Danish) > > 5 : de (Deutsch,German) > > 6 : es (Espano

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Perrier
> Suppose we order the items acording the numbers of people speaking the > languages. Very good -- in order to find the place of my language I > have to remember my geography lessons from the school. I will find > much interesting and even surprising in the order. Undoubtedly the > Debian instal

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:33:43PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:25:26AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > | > As long as this refers to the C locale (which would also be first if > | > sorted alphabetically by locale name -- using the C locale's sort rules, > | > that

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-15 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! Suppose we order the items acording the numbers of people speaking the languages. Very good -- in order to find the place of my language I have to remember my geography lessons from the school. I will find much interesting and even surprising in the order. Undoubtedly the Debian installer w

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-15 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:25:26AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: | > As long as this refers to the C locale (which would also be first if | > sorted alphabetically by locale name -- using the C locale's sort rules, | > that is :), that seems ok. If it's en_US or en_UK people are after, | | Yes

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Perrier
(-i18n, I should have CC'ed you on my original message.see -boot archives for it, sorry..the topic is "how to list languages on the very first debian-installer screen") > I don't think a two-stage selection is all that necessary. That seems > like added complexity for little benefit; the

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:48:57AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > First of all, sorry for just putting ideas in this mail and not > propose any implementation. I'm afraid my skills are too low for > proposing anything but really bad code. Not speaking of time > lacking..:-) > The current langua

Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-14 Thread Christian Perrier
First of all, sorry for just putting ideas in this mail and not propose any implementation. I'm afraid my skills are too low for proposing anything but really bad code. Not speaking of time lacking..:-) The current language list (which is the very first prompt a user "sees" when installing Debian