https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50431
--- Comment #14 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #13) > (In reply to comment #12) > > (In reply to comment #11) > > > (In reply to comment #9) > > > > I don't think that's a good outcome. If there isn't a description in > > > > your > > > > language (in this case, pt), we shouldn't magically tell you that we've > > > > given > > > > you a message in a different language (we don't do this for the MW > > > > messages > > > > framework, for instance). > > > > > > BTW this comment means WONTFIXing this whole bug. > > > > Why? > > > > This is just me saying that I don't think that instead of "Chien", if it > > doesn't exist in French we should give users "Dog -- OMG We gave you this > > message in English even though you asked for it in French!", which feels > > significant over-kill. > > Then I guess your point is that pt-br and pt are more similar, so falling > back from pt to pt-br is acceptable, while fr and en are not this case. Yes. > However technically pt-br and pt have the same relationship as fr and en, > or we'll have to compose some language similarity table ourselves, and manage > to resolve many edge cases (eg. dialects). Oh. I assumed the jQuery.i18n (or one of the other JS, MW-independent tools that the Language Engineering team have built) would have this built in. Is that not the case? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
