Re: A clearest OS
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On 06-02-2005 23:31, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote:
> Another idea I had before - and maybe this is what you really meant - is
> to have something like two different locales for each language: one
> plain (for dummies, say fr or en) and one talkative for experts (say
> fr_ex or en_ex). However, I don't consider its achievement very
> realistic.
Actually, that sounds not so stupid to me.
Originally (as I understand the history of it) locales were designed to
be singular - either one or the other at a time. Today you can declare a
an ordered list of several locales. Unfortunately some programs may not
handle that correctly (or so I read somewhere a warning about).
Well, if we can weed out the programs not handling multiple locales
correct (or I am not correct in the above ;-) ) then the infrastructure
seems splendid for tagging language "variants".
So it seems to take the following moves:
1. Make sure multiple prioritized locales are generally supported(1)
2. Make theme-handling of KDE and others get "inspired" by locales.
3. Make debian-installer ask about language "variants".
(1) It seems debian-installer does this currently, so maybe it works
already. My freshly installed laptop has /etc/environment set to
"da_DK:da:en_GB:en" even though I did not set that myself.
- Jonas
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