Re: Definition of COUNTRY (Was: Resignation)

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Mike Hommey (mh@glandium.org):

> Huh ? From your explanation, I understood that the bresilian will pick 
> portuguese and then will choose between japan and brasil, depending on 
> what he understands from "choose your country". The french will choose 
> between japan and eventually france. While the american english will 
> choose english(USA) and will be done with it.

No. This is really hard to explain, though it is indeed, simple to
use..:-)

Brazilian in Japan:
  1) Chooses Portuguese (other countries)
  2) Is presented with all countries with valid pt_XX locales:
     -Portugal
     -Brazil
     -Other
  3) Chooses Other. Then get all countries and pick "Japan"

French in Japan
  1) Chooses French (other countries)
  2) Is presented with all countries with valid fr_XX locales:
     -Belgium
     -Canada
     -France
     -Switzerland
     -Luxembourg
     -Other
  3) Chooses Other. Then get all countries and pick "Japan"

American in Japan
  1) Chooses English (other countries)
  2) Is presented with all countries with valid en_XX locales:
     -A lot...but not Japan
     -Other
  3) Chooses Other. Then get all countries and pick "Japan"

Of course, if the American living in Japan chooses English (USA), then
he will never have a chance to pick up Japan. However, he will always
be able to choose a Japanese timezone or a japanese mirror when time
will come to choose them. The only difference is that the *default*
will be US defaults....

I however may get your point : the first screen tells them

"Choose this to proceed in English (USA)"
"Choose this to proceed in English (Great Britain)"
"Choose this to proceed in English (other countries)"


If the user thinks "hey, I am American, thus I choose "English
(USA)"....bingo..:-)

Indeed this is an argument for dropping country-related choices in the
first screen and just show a list of languages. If this is what you
think, you just think like Steve Langasek.....However, the mixed
choices for very common choices saves users one screen....if you think
so, you just think like Petter Reinholdtsen...:-)

I personnaly tend to favour a single language choice option.