Re: Location list proposal [was: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?]
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org):
>
>> Please, we should be moving away from including countries at all on the
>> language chooser screen. I think the current mix of languages and
>> languages+countries on the first screen is very distracting already, and
>> wastes space in the menu.
>
> Well, reducing the languagechooser screen was one of the ideas behind
> countrychooser if you remember.
>
> However, after several discussions, the current compromise was made with
> some double choices :
>
> -English (USA)
> -English (Great-Britain)
> -English (other countries)
> .../...
>
> This allows people with the "most often used" countries to choose
> their country in one keystroke, while others still have the choice of
> getting the locale they may want to have.
>
> For details about how this works, readers of this thread can go back
> in -boot archives for January of February 2004.....
>
> There alredy, the Chinese language needed a special treatment because
> of the way the two written forms are coded : zh-CN and zh_TW.....which
> uses a country information for indicating the differences between the
> two written form of the language.
I'd advise Portuguese (Brazilian) and Portuguese (Portuguese) on the
languagechooser screen as well, because they're really rather different
(they even teach them in separate classes over here), despite using "only"
a country code to distinguish between the two. Maybe this is already being
done. ;-)
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