<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000099"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Gonzalo Odiard </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:godiard@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">How you get the list of languages and the translated names?</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 12, 2015 1:40 PM, "Tim Moody" <<a href="mailto:tim@timmoody.com" target="_blank">tim@timmoody.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline">The Sugar Labs wiki sidebar source has a Google Translation section that was easy to get translated language names.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline"><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=edit">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=edit</a></div> </div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153)">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.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153)">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.</div></div><br></div></div>