On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-11-06 20:33 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu>:
>
>> On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> And as I said in an earlier email, letting a user manually select the
>>> language in an application is common practice on Windows.
>>
>> So what are some examples of applications that support this?
>
> To name a few of them: Notepad++, CCleaner, Defraggler, LibreOffice,
> VirtualBox, jv16 Power Tools, VLC, PDFCreator, SumatraPDF...
> To simplify things, applications seem to fall in 2 categories: either you
> download a specific package with just your language, or a global installer
> where user can override at any time the language.
Would another two categories be:
applications from the free software community, which support manually
setting the language;
applications not from the free software community, which don't?
I.e., are there any applications not from the free software community that
support this?
If not, why not? Is it because the free software community are paying more
attention to user needs, or is it because a lot of them come from the
UNIX+{X11,Wayland,Mir} desktop world, in which not all desktops necessarily
offer a system-wide GUI option to select the language (KDE does, GNOME
presumably does, but other desktop environments, especially the "here's a
window manager, that's enough" environments, might not).
I'm *really* trying to understand the reasons why an additional "select the
language" option, over and above a system "select the language" option, is
useful, and whether it's useful in *all* environments or only in ones where
there isn't a system "select the language" option.
On Windows 7, the only "defaults to English" version that supports multiple
languages appears to be Windows 7 Ultimate. Do the non-English versions of,
for example, Windows 7 Home Premium offer multiple languages? Do the standard
Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional versions sold in Canada offer both
English and French? Do versions sold in Europe - or, at least, in multilingual
European countries such as Switzerland and Belgium - offer multiple languages?
Was that another reason to offer a separate "select the language" option in the
application itself? ("Was" because Windows 8 appears to support multilingual
installations in all versions.)
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