This is an issue found when I'm translating FAQ.
*Apparently, languages, scripts and nations are not one-to-one
corresponding.*
e.g
1. 23 languages in India.
2. Simplified Chinese (script) in Standard Mandarin (Putonghua,
language) in mainland China
3. Traditional Chinese (script) in Standard Mandarin (Guoyu, language)
in Taiwan
So if mark a language as a national flag, it will risk confusing and
potential political problems.
*Should Audacity provide country-specified contents, so that it can use
flags?*
I don't think so. Audacity is a tool that can be used around the world with
no (or maybe a little?) confusion by area.
*What about marking them in English, like English, German, Chinese
(Simplified), Hebrew....etc.?*
It's better than flags, but not best, since:
1. If there is someone finding difficulty reading English, they may also
have problems finding the English names of their language,
2. It's unnecessary for an English speaker to know about those words, if
they want, they can go to Wikipedia.
3. It's unnecessary for a developer. They can draw an image of
multilingual stats by looking at codes and file structure.
*What is the best practice?*
See those links:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
2.
http://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/best-practice-for-presenting-languages/
*How-to, or my advice.*
In Audacity wiki, current multilingual system is using links to the page as
flags, like this
- [[Image:Flag_of_Croatia_small.png|link=FAQ:About Audacity/hr|ČP:O
Audacityju]]
- [[Image:FrenchFlagSmall.png|link=FAQ:About Audacity/fr|FAQ : À propos
d'Audacity]]
- [[Image:Flag of Germany small.png|link=FAQ:About Audacity/de|FAQ:Über
Audacity]]
- [[Image:Flag_of_italy_small.png|link=FAQ:About Audacity/it|FAQ:Circa
Audacity]]
- [[Image:Flag_of_Portugal_small.png|link=FAQ:About
Audacity/pt|FAQ:Sobre o Audacity]]
- [[Image:Flag of Spain small.png|link=FAQ:About Audacity/es|FAQ:Sobre
Audacity]]
- [[Image:Flag of China small.png|link=FAQ:About
Audacity/zh_CN|FAQ:About Audacity]]
I think it is possible to batch processed to local names, directly.
Maybe something like a box like in Mediawiki (link:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:About).
Regards,
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