Re: Adding Languages to Writer's Character, Font Menu

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:26:50 +0000
toki <toki.kantoor@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll simply point to the current version of Microsoft Office, which is
> claimed, by Microsoft, to support more than 7,000 languages.
>
> As far as UI design goes, there are at least four options.
> 1) Offer everything, listed alphabetically;
> 2) Select the writing system, which is roughly 200 choices, then the
> language, and then, when needed, the locale;
> 3) Select the writing system, which is roughly 200 choices, then the
> locale, which is roughly 250 choices, and then the language, which, in
> the worst case scenario, is a thousand options;

Do you mean 'script' when you say 'writing system'?  Few languages
share a writing system - Welsh, English, French and German have four
different writing systems.

Richard.