[bubulle@kheops.frmug.org: Languagechooser changes]
FYI
----- Forwarded message from Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org> -----
> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:40:30 +0100
> To: "Carlos Z.F. Liu" <carlos_liu@yahoo.com>,
> Bart Cornelis <cobaco@linux.be>, Dennis Stampfer <seppy@debian.org>,
> Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuig@debian.org>,
> Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>,
> Nikolai Prokoschenko <nikolai@prokoschenko.de>,
> Teófilo Ruiz Suárez <teo@debian.org>,
> André Dahlqvist <andre.dahlqvist@telia.com>
> From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org>
> Subject: Languagechooser changes
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i
>
> Hello folks,
>
> This mail is sent to you because you are the "main" debian-installer
> translators for "third type" languages.
>
> "Third type" languages in d-i are languages for which languagechooser
> offers a multiple country choice. This means that the user can
> directly choose both language and country for these language in one
> screen.
>
> After several discussions in debian-boot and IRC, we finally concluded
> that the best scheme for these languages is having up to three "top"
> countries, offered as choices in languagechooser and then a "other
> countries" choice.
>
> This has been implemented on Feb 7th to languagechooser.
>
> At this time, for all your languages, i copied/pasted another entry
> and replaced the country name by "other countries", in English, in the
> tools/languagechooser/languagelist.l10n file
>
> Could you please have a look at this and translate "other countries"?
>
> Also check the "top countries" list. I indeed did not change it,
> except for Spanish where I added Argentina to Spain and Mexico.
>
>
> Special cases:
>
> -Chinese : up to now, zh_CN was designed as "Chinese (Simplified)". I
> voluntarily changed this to "Chinese (China)" as this is what the
> zh_CN locale really means. In the same time, I changed "Chinese
> Traditional" to "Chinese (Taiwan)" as zh_TW means this.
> Carlos, translations should be adapted accordingly
>
> I insist on this : as long as Chinese will only have one ISO 639
> code, the variants need to be named after country names (same for
> Portuguese, btw)
>
> If two languages are completely different, they shouldn't share the
> same ISO code (Chinese and Portuguese are imho ISO anomalies on that
> matter)
>
> -Portuguese : Miguel, I ask you for "Portuguese (other countries)" as
> I think that the "classical" Portuguese is most often spoken in
> portuguese-speaking countries, other than Brazil.
>
> There are currently none, but this may change in the future (for
> instance if a "Portuguese/Capverde" locale is added to the valid
> locales list some day
>
> -Swedish : André, there are currently *no* "other" countries except
> Sweden and Finland which have a valid sv_YY locale. However, for
> preserving the future, I prefer having an "Other" entry anyway.
>
>
> -Same for Dutch and Italian
>
> -German : we are limited to three countries. This is why I preferred
> removing the "Belgium" choice (though de_BE is valid) and add
> Austria. German-speaking people in Belgium will need to choose "Other"
> and they will be offered with a Belgium choice. Seppy, Austria is
> "Österreich", is it? (seven years learning German and I'm not even
> sure of this)
>
> -Russian : I hesitated to add "Russian (Ukraine)" to the list as this
> is the other ru_XX valid locale. Finally, as Ukrainian has just been
> added, I leave people who prefer use ru_UA choosing the "Other"
> choice
> You need to translated "Russia" also. I know how to spell Rossia in
> cyrillic, but no idea how to input cyrillic characters...:-)
>
>
> --
>
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