Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Language names should be in the target language chars

Hi :)
Sorry to say but i've had a couple of messages off-list from people who
have had trouble dealing with the CLDR people.  Not all community projects
are as open and welcoming as they like to believe.  It's a shame but it
happens [shrugs]

We thought about having 2 columns, one entirely in whichever language and
the other with each item in a different language was considered and
rejected by the Ubuntu project for their installer.  It's a LOT of work and
difficult to keep track of all the different parts of the jigsaw puzzle.
 So, although it might be a nice idea i think we should drop that idea too
and just have the 1 column, as originally suggested;

"
I believe those language names should be changed to the target names
chars for all UIs, like the language listed here:
http://zh-cn.libreoffice.org/international-sites/
(see the second column)

I am thinking about this because of the following reason:

  * It's a waste of time for localizers to translate every foreign
    language names to their own locale. Even translated, it may not be
    correct.
  * In case the users are trying to switch between languages, there may
    be confusion (for example, if I want to test something in Franch UI,
    and after that I want to change back to Chinese UI it's really
    difficult to find the right one in the list box.
"

Sorry my opinions have turned out to be a bit rubbish so far!
Apols and regards from
Tom :)





On 10 April 2014 21:58, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi :)
> I like the look of their "Acknowledgements" page.  It lists individuals as
> well as companies.
> http://cldr.unicode.org/index/acknowledgments
>
> OpenOffice is listed along with many OpenSource projects in the "who uses"
> section
> http://cldr.unicode.org/#TOC-Who-uses-CLDR-
>
> So i wonder if there is a good reason why LibreOffice didn't use it
> because at first glance it looks fairly fantastic to me.  Is there some
> politics or licensing that makes it difficult for LibreOffice to be
> involved or was it just not as useful as it's looks at first glance or some
> other good reason for not being involved?
>
>
> Getting back to the initial question, would it be difficult to list the
> languages each in their own language?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> On 10 April 2014 18:17, Xuacu <xuacusk8@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2014-04-10 17:43 GMT+02:00 Kevin Suo <suokunlong@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > [...]
> > > I even dont know most of the others "AN AR AST BE BG BN BRX CA CA-VAL
> > > [...]
> > These are ISO 639-1/ISO 639-2 language codes. In case you need it,
> > their equivalences are here:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes
> >
> > BTW, can't we use CLDR libraries to get language names in local and/or
> > foreign format as needed? I'm not a developer, that's just a blind
> > guess.
> >
> > Best regards.
> > --
> > Xuacu Saturio

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