Language settings [Re: Simplified Chinese in SuSE]

Am Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 16.27 schrieb Mike FABIAN > unter "Re: [m17n] Simplified Chinese in SuSE":

...

Marc Waeckerlin さんは書きました:

...

2) Language setup: Here SuSE could definitively learn from (k)ubuntu distribution: There I first choose my language (German), then I get a dialog to choose my country from a list of predefined Countries, for German this is Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium and "other".

What is "other"?

If you speak German, but do not live in a German speaking country, e.g. German in France or so. "other" means, select any country.

...

...

This way, with only two choices, all localization parameters can be setup correctly, i.e. keyboard and time.

Maybe it would be a good idea to select the territory automatically from the timezone?

Vice versa is better. For Joe Average, the important things are his language and his country, not his timezone and his keyboard layout. Of course, if you live in a country that contains several timezones, you need a more deeper information. But here again, for Joe Average, it would probably be better to choose the province, state or region (e.g. China - East-Coast). I don't know, how Ubuntu solved this problem. I'd recommend to copy Ubuntu's approach.

Maybe it would make sense to extend that to set the territory (like CH in de_CH.UTF-8) as well?

It's also a possibility. Don't forget the country settings in KDE (and GNOME?)...

Of course one can imagine that a user does not live in Switzerland and therefore doesn't want to choose Switzerland in the timezone settings but nevertheless wants de_CH.UTF-8 as the default (maybe she has a Swiss keyboard?).

Learn from Ubuntu: They ask language and country, then suggest a timezone and keyboard layout, which can be accepted or changed. Regards Marc