On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 09:14:56PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:13:33PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > One posts suggested that fr_FR would be on the lists for both America > > and Asia. Portuguese is spoken on four continents, and I think the > > Brazilian Portuguese translations are sufficiently complete that many > > other Portuguese speakers would prefer them over English. Continents > > don't really seem to map very well to the language preferences of the > > people who live there. :) > Huh? fr_FR is frensh as spoken in France, so Europe. > And pt_BR (or whatever it is called) is Portuguese as spoken > in Brazil and would be in the South America category, while > pt_PT (or whatever the real name is) would be in the Europe > category (for Portuguese as spoken in Portugal).
> So if you are living in Brazil you will select "South America" > and only see pt_BR but not pt_PT. So Debian users in Angola or East Timor would have to click on either "South America" or "Europe" to be shown a Portuguese language option, since there are currently no d-i translators for either of these locales? Also, how do you display the names of the continents so that all of your non-English-speaking users can understand them? :) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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