WOW, if that is a a normal situation over there then yall is crazy. no I had a feeling that someone would say something like that but I wrote it anyway. I can see how having the language would be good for some. do you have any comments on anything else.
cheers, Andrew On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Sveinn í Felli <svei...@nett.is> wrote: > Þann sun 15.apr 2012 20:38, skrifaði Andrew Pullins: > > Hello >> im taking all this from >> https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/Design/**Writer_Status_Bar_Remaking<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Writer_Status_Bar_Remaking> >> > ------------------- > > >> Language... why do we need to tell people what language they are in. there >> has never been a moment in my life where I had forgotten what language I >> speak and read. i guess this could be useful for people who speak >> different languages, but then again it does not take that long to >> recognize >> that the words on the screen are not English. when I see Spanish, German, >> or Swedish I do not wander if it is English. now I would not see the >> difference between German and Swedish, but I could see that it >> is definitely not English. so why is it even there? >> >> > Imagine this (a real-life example): > > A french professional translator works in Moscow; editing documents with > sections in various languages and alphabets ranging from Ukrainian and > Russian to Dutch and French, using his good'ol French keyboard in an > Russian OS, having LibreOffice UI alternatively in French and English. > > In a case like this you'd really appreciate see right away which language > you're editing (after disruption by phone or whatever). > > Such a person is also a likely candidate to beg for a nice > word/character/line count. > > Regards, > Sveinn í Felli > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > design+help@global.**libreoffice.org<design%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/design/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
