Re: Language settings [Re: Simplified Chinese in SuSE]

Marc Waeckerlin さんは書きました:

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

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Marc Waeckerlin さんは書きました:

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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.

But you cannot select any country for the locale settings, you have to stick to the locales supported by glibc. For German these are currently de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU, de_BE. That's it, there is no "other". So "other" can only mean "I don't care" which then probably selects de_DE. That's why I asked.

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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.

There are also countries with several keyboard layouts in common use.

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.

Have you tried whether this really works well in all corner cases? -- Mike FABIAN http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。