translation in fedora 6 start page

[Dimitris Glezos]

O/H Paul W. Frields έγραψε:
> On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 15:47 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
>> one thing i've just noticed:
>> once i've selected "russian" i can no longer return to other languages
>> since i can't read "english" in russian anymore.
>>
>> of course, placing mouse on every link finaly shows the english link,
>> but we can not expect for the new linux user to know this trick .....
>>
>> (and there's the back browser button too -_- ...)
>>
>> imho, in every translated version, the links to another languages
>> should be in the respective languages (like spanish link in spanish,
>> english link in english, greek link in greek, etc)
> 
> There's a chicken-and-egg problem involved.  We can't write the
> paragraph containing the list of languages until all the finished
> translations come in.  Once that happens, the added paragraph is
> untranslated.  Get it?  :-)

Paul,

I think Cornel meant that the paragraph should be the same in all languages,
like the following:

  "English, Italiano, Ελληνικά, ..."

so that whatever page you visit, you will be able to return to your own since
you'll always understand the link.

An alternative is to have the language name localized in parenthesis, which
comforts both users wanting to understand the links in their own webpage and
people wanting to understand links in all webpages:

  EN: English, Italiano (Italian), Ελληνικά (Greek), ...
  EL: Αγγλικά (English), Ιταλικά (Italian), Ελληνικά, ...

or the opposite (original name in parenthesis:

  EN: English, Italian (Italiano), Greek (Ελληνικά), ...
  EL: Αγγλικά (English), Ιταλικά (Italiano), Ελληνικά, ...


The first of the three ways solves the chicken-and-egg problem but is not
localized, so it's the only paragraph from the page that a reader won't be able
to understand. It's a tradeoff I guess, but at least it's better than having all
the language names in English.

Anyway, this will be less important once the adaptive index will work. Even with
that though, we should choose which of the above we will implement. :)

-d

> 
> In any case, this will cease to be a problem at some point in the near
> future.  We will have an adaptive index function that will simply pick
> up your locale from your browser using Javascript, and show the correct
> translation automatically.
> 
> 

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