[Localization] Language lists

[Yuan Chao]

On Feb 18, 2008 2:16 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we reorganize the main Pootle page? It currently lists languages
> in alphabetical order in one paragraph. That's difficult to search
> visually.
For me, Firefox's "type-n-search" feature serves quite well here. :)
Also, once you've registered, you can specify certain languages as "my
language". You don't have to go through the whole list every time.

> Languages
> Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Aymara, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India),
> Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese
> (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English
> (South African), English (US), Finnish, French, Friulian, Fula,
> Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi, Icelandic,
> Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam,
> Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Polish,
> Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian,
> Serbian, Sinhala, Slovenian, Sotho, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu,
> Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba,
> pseudo L10n
>
>
> I don't know what the best arrangement would be. Perhaps we could
> offer a separate listing for each obvious choice: alphabetic, by
> country or region, by writing system? Here is a possible arrangement,
> with suggestions for other languages needed, some immediately, more
> later on. It would be helpful, I think, to have more and clearer
> invitations in the Wiki and on Pootle for members of these communities
> to start on their languages.
>
> Americas: English, English (US), French, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish,
> Dutch (need Haitian Creole French/Kreyol)
> Native American: Aymara, Quechua (several dialects) (need others)
>
> Europe: Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan (Catalonia in Spain), Czech,
> Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Friulian (Italy), Galician, German,
> Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish,
> Polish, Portuguese, Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovenian, Swedish, (need
> Croatian (Latin), Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak,
> others)
>
> Africa: Fula, Kinyarwanda, Wolof, (need Swahili, many others). Also
> languages of former imperial powers: English, French, Spanish,
> Portuguese, German, Italian
> Arab countries: Arabic (need Berber languages)
> Nigeria: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba (need Edo, Efik, Adamawa Fulfulde, Idoma,
> Central Kanuri)
> South Africa: Afrikaans, English (South African) (need Ndebele,
> Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa,
> Zulu)
> Ethiopia: Amharic (need Tigrinya)
>
> Asia: Japanese, Korean, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Persian/Farsi,
> Sinhala, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese (need Divehi, Khmer, Laotian,
> Mongolian (Traditional script), Malaysian, Myanmar, Sindhi,
> Vietnamese)
> Afghanistan: Dari, Pashto (need Hazaragi, Aimaq)
> Bangladesh: Bengali
> China: Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan),
> Dzongkha (need Cantonese, Tibetan, Uighur, Yi, others)
> India: Bengali (India), Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi,
> Tamil, Telugu (need the rest of the official "scheduled" languages:
> Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Meitei,
> Nepali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Urdu)
> Former Soviet Union: Georgian, Ukrainian (need Armenian, Azeri,
> Belarusian, Kazakh, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, others)
>
> Other: Maltese, pseudo L10n (need Kurdish (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey),
> Tagalog, Indonesian, others)
Is this really making it simpler?


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Best regards,
Yuan Chao