On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 07:09:56PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > Hi, > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:33:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Sort using what locale? > > How many users know the locale name of their language? > > Sorting has big problems. > What about grouping by continent and only > sorting within these groups? This would be > comprehensible by the user and lead to easier > to parse lists. One posts suggested that fr_FR would be on the lists for both America and Asia. Portuguese is spoken on four continents, and I think the Brazilian Portuguese translations are sufficiently complete that many other Portuguese speakers would prefer them over English. Continents don't really seem to map very well to the language preferences of the people who live there. :) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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