[Localization] [sugar] code comments?

Walter Bender walter at laptop.org
Sat Apr 5 17:01:59 EDT 2008


It may become an important feature over time, such as when we have
Quechua support and want to fall back to Spanish before falling back
to English, but I wouldn't think it is a priority in any of our
current deployments.

-walter

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> Very interesting, I guess we should integrate it in the language
>  section of the control panel. AFAIK, this is not being considered yet.
>
>  If we don't want to add more complexity to the control panel UI, we
>  may assign under the hoods a fallback language to every language?
>
>  Perhaps someone from deployment could comment on the better milestone
>  to target this?
>
>  Tomeu
>
>
>
>  On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>  > Interesting, thanks. Are there any plans to make use of this feature
>  >  in deployments?
>  >
>  >  - Bert -
>  >
>  >
>  >  On 05.04.2008, at 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>  >  > 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 -
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
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