On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:58 +0100, Uwe Fischer wrote: > Hello, > > Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > Hello Uwe, > > > > Uwe Fischer a écrit : > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm searching for a common landing page where every user can see at > >> once all the languages that are available for OOo, with links to the > >> localized support pages etc. ... > >> I want to give a link in the installed help: "Click here to find the > >> OOo pages in your language" for the user who wants to get help but who > >> is not used in reading English. > > > > So this is what we have aside the NLC official page: > > http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html : it's better presented > > than the NLC page that is really designed for potential new members of > > the NLC. > > and http://documentation.openoffice.org that has a scrollbar pointing to > > the different NL projects. > > > > What do you think we coul do on top of those? Perhaps the concept of the > > language selector as it exists in the documentation project could be reused? > > > > the current pages are good for the developer and other computer experts > who want to help with the projects. > But for a "normal user" of OOo it is a bit difficult to find out that > there indeed exist pages in his/her language. > Some users may not know the english name of their language. Do you know > the kirgisian name for France? > Some users may not want to read western characters but prefer chinese or > greek or arabic or other characters. > So a portal page with some maps of the world as image maps comes to my > mind, or some flags - although this could lead to political > implications. May be something like the starting page of wikipedia.org ? > > Uwe
Uwe, The dropdown at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ displays native languages in the correct language. e.g. German is correctly listed as Deutsch, French as Français. We have tried to do this for each language listed where the NLCs have provided the correct spelling. I agree that having the website automatically recognize native languages would be nice but the following thread seems to indicate that doing this would be problematic: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=1610035 -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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