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Re: r14631 - in trunk/packages/countrychooser: . debian



On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 06:26:24AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Martin Michlmayr (tbm@cyrius.com):
> > * Denis Barbier <barbier@haydn.debian.org> [2004-05-02 16:12]:
> > > +  * Denis Barbier
> > > +    - EG was listed twice in regionmap
> > >  
> > >   -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org>  Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:56:19 +0200
> > 
> > Do you think you can fix?
> > * #215205: languagechooser: Language order should have a better sorting than alphabetical

> Well, I have no other idea for sorting else than alphabetically on
> language code. This was indeed discussed when I raised this bug (at
> this time, the sorting was regarding the beginning of the "Please
> choose" sentence)). So, 215205 should indeed be closed!

> However, for the next release, I was considering the
> following:

> The language choice will affect blahblah....

> Choose the language:

> .../...
> English
> French  - Français
> Italian - Italiano
> Spanish - Espanol
> .../...

> Bothe English and "local" names are put on the line. The "local" name
> starts at the 20th or so column.

> English (default) is first and the the list is alphabetically sorted
> regarding the English name of the language.

> This also answers to another concern expressed by Nikolai who argues
> that the string "Please choose this to proceed in ....." is confusing
> for rather close languages such as Ukrainian/Russian/Bulgarian.

> Does anyone care to comment?

What ever happened to the idea of sorting by ISO codes, which are
probably easier to look for than English translations of one's native
language?

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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