Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: LibreOffice Online translation

Congratulations on the most absurd set of numbers ever to justify a 
bonkers approach. I bet some dev at the Pentagon made a similar brief 
for retaining 8" floppies in the nuclear launch program last year.

There isn't enough material in Primitive Irish to write a shopping list, 
never mind a website. It's mostly names of people so that's not a use 
case, it's a joke. Especially when you consider that, for example, this 
system leaves Yoruba (65 million *living* speakers capable of writing 
more than X ERECTED THIS STONE) or Kurdish (est. 15 million speakers) 
royally buggered...

In the words of Victor Meldrew "I don't believe it" - we're sitting here 
in 2016 debating an version of LibreOffice, with its long history of 
l10n, which is seemingly incapable of enabling users to access the 
software in their chosen language... I expect this kind of thing from 
Apple or Google, not TDF...

Michael

Sgrìobh toki na leanas 27/05/2016 aig 09:16:
> On 25/05/2016 23:42, Michael Bauer wrote:
>
> > but there is no such thing as "Scottish Gaelic (gd) - Ireland (ie)". Scottish Gaelic is not an 
> > Irish locale.
> Whilst one has to go back in time, there is a use case for gd-IE that
> that fails when one uses ga-IE as a workaround. One does have to go
> further back in time, for pgl-ie-212 to be the required setting.
> (Gaeilge Ársa in Ireland using the Ogham writing system.)
>
> This is where the UI designer has to decide what percentage of the user
> base can be pissed off, because the UI doesn't support their specific
> use-case. Do you aim at a minimal 1,000,000 combinations (^1), or the
> basic core of 275 million combinations (^2), or go to the full
> 1,188,137,600,000 theoretically possible combinations (^3).
>
> ^1:  Minimal setup: 1,000 languages, 100 countries, 10 writing systems,
> no modifier.
>
> ^2: Basic Core: 2,500 languages, 110 countries, 100 writing systems, 10
> modifiers.
>
> ^3: Full: 17,576 languages, 676 countries, 1,000 writing systems, 100
> modifiers
>
> jonathon

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