On Sunday 21 May 2006 12:48, Robert Millan wrote: > Ok. At this point, it seems unlikely that this will get into > localechooser as Christian will probably not change his opinion on this. > I respect this decision, although I hope it can be reconsidered in the > future. > > Nevertheless, I think this could be useful in other distributions > (including, but not limited to, Ubuntu). Alastair, if you have no > objection, would you like to provide this information in the package, so > that those who are interested in it can use it?
Hi,
having read the previous discussion, I still think that it is better to
leave things as they are, and not to add the "regional_name" field to the
XML file.
In my opinion, the change adds quite some complexity which is hard to
understand for translation teams. Take for example the comments you put in
the generated pot file (your patch to iso2pot.py). There are four special
cases with detailed instructions when to leave the msgid untranslated and
when to translate it. This seems to me unnecessary difficult.
Furthermore, what if someone from that little town in Italy (Alguer) moves
to Rome? If they would choose "Catalan" as their language then the country
list would only offer "L'Alguer (Italy)" instead of "Italy", which would be
the appropriate choice. Please note that I'm aware that the end result for
the locale would be the same, ca_IT in both cases. Still, your proposal
would irritate the user, whereas the current approach would be correct,
only not as specific as it could be.
Like Christian said, he's not the maintainer of iso-codes, and neither am I.
However, I support his opinion and would vote to not apply this change.
Cheers,
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Tobias
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