[sugar] [Localization] code comments?

[Eben Eliason]

(You could also acheive similar behavior by offering a "move to top"
button, either in addition to or instead of the "up"/"down" buttons.
With this approach, clicking anywhere on the language entry could
trigger the action, rather than needing a smaller button.)

- Eben


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>
> > Very interesting, I guess we should integrate it in the language
>  >  section of the control panel. AFAIK, this is not being considered yet.
>  >
>  >  If we don't want to add more complexity to the control panel UI, we
>  >  may assign under the hoods a fallback language to every language?
>
>  The best way to provide this support in the UI is to present the
>  available languages in a list (as opposed to, for instance, a popup),
>  which allows drag and drop reordering.  In this manner, the user may
>  simply sort their preferred list of languages to to the top, in any
>  order they wish.  For accessibility (and just to make it all around
>  easier for those that have trouble dragging), it would be wise to add
>  "up" and "down" buttons to each language entry, so that the reordering
>  can be accomplished with clicks instead.
>
>  Alternately, you could provide both "preferred language" and
>  "secondary language" popups, which is slightly less flexible, but I'm
>  unsure how many people would really want more than one level of
>  fallback, or two at the most.
>
>  - Eben
>
>
>
>  >  Perhaps someone from deployment could comment on the better milestone
>  >  to target this?
>  >
>  >  Tomeu
>  >
>  >  On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>  >  > Interesting, thanks. Are there any plans to make use of this feature
>  >  >  in deployments?
>  >  >
>  >  >  - Bert -
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  On 05.04.2008, at 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>  >  >  > Yes, by setting LANGUAGE env variable with a fall back language,
>  >  >  > some thing
>  >  >  > like "LANGUAGE=ur_PK:fa_IR:ar", you can specify multiple fall back
>  >  >  > languages.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:31:30AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>  >  >  >> ... which reminds me: Is it possible in gettext to fall back on a
>  >  >  >> language other than English when a translation for some phrase cannot
>  >  >  >> be found? That would be a useful feature I think, as long as there
>  >  >  >> are
>  >  >  >> programs that are not fully translated (which will happen very
>  >  >  >> often).
>  >  >  >>
>  >  >  >> - Bert -
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
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