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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:59:46PM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> [To other Allegro developpers:]
> Is there any specific rule for naming the keyboard mappings and languages ?
Not officially, which has made things go unsynchronized.
> Currently language files use the adjective (German, Norvegian, Russian)
Really? I've always thought of a language being a noun :-?
> while most of keyboard mapping files use the name of the country (Denmark,
> France, Portugal) except two (Russian and Slovak). Moreover two language
> files use the translated adjective (Français and Espanol).
AFAIC this happens because only those two text resources have been updated
relatively recently (wips or something like that, I guess). People who
wrote them originally haven't kept mantaining them.
> Should we even the things and require that:
> - the language file use the English adjective,
> - the keyboard mapping file use the English name of the country ?
Both wrong :) First of all, having everything in english is useless for
any non-english speaking person. Both language and country should be
written in the native language of the country. Such native names are also
AFAIK more close to the iso langcodes (we use es for España, not sp for
Spain). Note that if these strings should not be translated, they are
pretty useless in the .cfg files, the values could be hardcoded in some
other variable or file name.
It may look a little bit silly at the moment though, because the setup
tool is itself in english, but then you could check that todo wishlist
and keep an eye on the setup improvements :)
It's been long since I have seen such a mistake in software sold around
here, but it makes some people really angry. I've seen myself a few cases
of this, where most of the program was correctly localized except for
language names or codes, being in english form. From one point of view
I understand these people, OTOH I would prefer having a single language
for everything, and looks like english is the defacto choice everywhere.
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