On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 05:42:26PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Perhaps one possibility is to ask the country question at a lower > > priority _after_ the language question, if necessary; e.g. we might not > > need to ask the 'which country' bit for many languages, and it would > > simplify the language question. This approach was taken in woody, I > > believe. > Agreed, but unfortunately lower priority is a problem because of > portuguese. > Portuguese speaking people *have* to choose between pt_BR and pt. Both > are different enough and I guess that neither brazilian folks nor > portuguese folks would really appreciate that the "other" language is > the default..:-) > Anyway, choosing the country is an important enough setting for having > it at the same priority than language. For these purposes, I believe Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese should be considered top-level options, since they're particularly divergent in the area of computer vocabulary and need independent translations for d-i (as shown). Where a user is located is still a distinct question from which translation they want, even in this case. > I think that languagechooser should indeed at least forget about the > country stuff (it clutters up the language selection screen). Each > language should either have a "default" country, when this default is > obvious, or none when there is no obvious default. Certainly agreed. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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