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Re: Deactivated languages



Pe data de Mar 21 Noi 2006 11:15, Daniel Glassey a scris:
> On 21/11/06, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> > Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au> wrote:
> > > We'd still be saving space, even if we allowed several versions of
> > > one country, e.g. [...]
> > >
> > > > United Kingdom, England
> >
> > Those aren't two versions of one country.  England is a country.
> > United Kingdom is a nation/state, also including Scotland, Wales,
> > Northern Ireland.  Different things.
>
> Indeed.

It's amazing how many people confuse those.

> Some countries may be in multiple scripts (how about India in all 23
> officlal languages?) so that is another problem to solve - how about
> unicode collation order?
>
> Though if you include all official languages the space savings may not
> be so good :/

Definitely would be better than the current situation (taking into account 
that we simply can't add a translation into a language for which we don't 
have a translator) :-)

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Regards,
EddyP
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