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Re: [SUMMARY] Bits about countrychooser and languagechooser



On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:41:21AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:

> Advantages: simple to implement, may be done quickly Drawbacks : the
> language selection list will be quite long as we will end up with
> about 20 supported languages and 2 entries for most of them

It is actually a huge drawback -- the current language list (on the
first screen) is full with similar German and English translations,
which makes you think it's a bug, but a bit later you notice these are
for different countries. Then you go down the list, seeing all other
languages above yours, thinking about how it sucks, that the list gets
sorted like ARABIC-latin-"rest of the world", then you start silently
complaining about bad russian translation, when you notice it's
actually Bulgarian and the russian one is two items down the
list........... :)

>         Language selected:  English
> 
>         Based on your chosen language, the following
>         default settings can be used for the install.
>         If they are fine, select "Accept".  Otherwise
>         you can change them by selecting the appropriate
>         menu entry.
> 
>         Country:        United States        [ change ]
>         Keyboard:       us                   [ change ]
>         Time Zone:      US/Eastern           [ change ]
>         Debian mirror:  http.us.debian.org   [ change ]
>                                              [ Accept ]
> 

I'm all for it, if it really looks this way!

> screens....but several others are saved need some "one language/one
> country" choices which is not easy for some languages (English at
> first...:-)))

Just take the most common one: US for English, even if the British
complain, Germany for German, Spain for Spanish.  If we get more
_translations_ like pt_BR (for which Brazil would be the default one),
then we might have some default Spanish/Mexico combinations etc.

-- 
Nikolai Prokoschenko 
nikolai@prokoschenko.de / Jabber: pronik@jabber.org



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