[Sugar-devel] Language Support (Tony Anderson)

[Frederick Grose]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> How you get the list of languages and the translated names?
> On Aug 12, 2015 1:40 PM, "Tim Moody" <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
>
>> I did a language picker for xsce and the approach I took was to put each
>> language in its native form, so Deutsch not German and हिन्दी not Hindi.
>> So in Arabic English would still be English.  The only quandary is sort
>> order.  I chose unicode, which means all the non-Roman scripts come at the
>> end.
>>
>
​The Sugar Labs wiki sidebar source has a Google Translation section that
was easy to get translated language names.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=edit​


​I attempted to sort the list roughly phonetically​ according to common
sounds of Latin alphabet letters.  Wikipedia's language letter code sorting
results in something similar due to the selection of the letter codes.
There are errors due to my ignorance of pronunciation. Reliable
pronunciation sources would allow the errors to be corrected.

Center alignment avoids left-to-right vs right-to-left bias.  No attempt to
was made to avoid the horizontal vs vertical reading direction bias.
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