[Etoys] Multiple language fallback

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 06.04.2008, at 04:22, Korakurider wrote:
> Hi,
> Original NaturalLanguaeTranslator implementation has sort of fallback
> functionality:
> If translation isn't found for current locale, try again for parent
> locale (see #translate: ).

Makes sense.

> I omitted it from gettext translator but adding it would be trivial.
> How we want to handle the setting would be more difficult part (how to
> tweak  LocaleID>>current,

We could extend the LocalePlugin to return a list of language codes,  
or as a cheap solution pass LANGUAGE on the command line (is it really  
LANGUAGE not LANG?).

> to store in project? etc)

Not sure what you mean here.

> I think this fallback thing would be useful for some situation, but we
> also need to make etoys translation easier.  Translators community
> have been asking for this.

Certainly, though I do not see how supporting fallback languages would  
negatively affect translators.

- Bert -

> Cheers
> /Korakurider
>
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Bert Freudenberg  
> <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> Takashi, Korakurider,
>>
>> do we support this in Etoys? If not, what would need to be done to
>> allow it?
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>
>>> Date: 5. April 2008 12:05:20 MESZ
>>> To: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>>> Cc: Localization mailing list <localization at lists.laptop.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Localization] code comments?
>>>
>>> Yes, by setting LANGUAGE env variable with a fall back language,
>>> some thing
>>> like "LANGUAGE=ur_PK:fa_IR:ar", you can specify multiple fall back
>>> languages.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:31:30AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>> ... which reminds me: Is it possible in gettext to fall back on a
>>>> language other than English when a translation for some phrase  
>>>> cannot
>>>> be found? That would be a useful feature I think, as long as there
>>>> are
>>>> programs that are not fully translated (which will happen very
>>>> often).
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -
>>