On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may become an important feature over time, such as when we have > Quechua support and want to fall back to Spanish before falling back > to English, but I wouldn't think it is a priority in any of our > current deployments.
Current target countries Haiti: Kreyól/French/English Rwanda: Kinyarwanda/English/French Cambodia: Khmer/French/English Afghanistan: Dari/Pashto/English, Pashto/Dari/Russian/English, Pashto/Urdu/English, Dari/Tajik/English, Hazara/Dari/English... Mongolia: Mongolian/Russian/English or Mongolian/English/Russian. Later on a choice between Mongolian (Cyrillic) and Mongolian (Traditional) will complicate matters further. US: English/Spanish, English/French, English/Chinese, English/Italian, English/Korean, English/Vietnamese,... Other possibilities Nigeria: any combination of Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, English and others Brazil: Portuguese (Brazil)/Portuguese/English/Spanish, among other possibilities India: Any combination of more than 20 official languages, plus other world languages Me: English/French/German/Russian/Spanish/Yiddish/Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Swahili You can't decide for your users what they want. It is best to let them choose. I don't say that you have to allow 10 choices, as in my example, but four or five is quite common. My grandfather spoke Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Yiddish, and later in life English, and knew a fair amount of Hebrew and some Aramaic. They do say that the correct English word for a person who speaks multiple languages is "polyglot", and the correct English word for a person who speaks only one language is "American". > -walter > > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very interesting, I guess we should integrate it in the language > > section of the control panel. AFAIK, this is not being considered yet. > > > > If we don't want to add more complexity to the control panel UI, we > > may assign under the hoods a fallback language to every language? No. Too many possibilities, not enough information. > > Perhaps someone from deployment could comment on the better milestone > > to target this? > > > > Tomeu > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Interesting, thanks. Are there any plans to make use of this feature > > > in deployments? > > > > > > - Bert - > > > > > > > > > On 05.04.2008, at 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > > Yes, by setting LANGUAGE env variable with a fall back language, > > > > some thing > > > > like "LANGUAGE=ur_PK:fa_IR:ar", you can specify multiple fall back > > > > languages. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:31:30AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > > >> ... which reminds me: Is it possible in gettext to fall back on a > > > >> language other than English when a translation for some phrase > cannot > > > >> be found? That would be a useful feature I think, as long as there > > > >> are > > > >> programs that are not fully translated (which will happen very > > > >> often). > > > >> > > > >> - Bert - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Localization mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > One Laptop per Child > http://laptop.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Localization mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
