[Sugar-devel] Language Support (Tony Anderson) (Frederick Grose)

[Tim Moody]

I agree that phonetic is a better, but I didn't have the time to create the
map.  If you have a map or ordered list, I'd love to have it.  I took that
approach for the limited list of languages on the home page menu (though I
just noticed that Hindi and Kreyol are out of order).

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> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:58:09 -0400
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> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
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> > 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 ?????? 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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