On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Craig Andrews<[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to see a notice has a new field saved with in the database:
> it's language. A notice's language is set by (first match wins):
> 1. Language hash tag (#.en #.fr etc)
> 2. API provided meta data (or web interface selection)
> 3. "Language" selection from the user's profile

This logic works for me - there's no "guessing" involved which is good
for first attempt at this.

Liking this approach very much.

>
> This way, multilingual users can override the language of a particular
> notice per notice.
>
> I'd also like to see (and this could certainly come later) a way for a
> user to indicate what languages they understand, then filter all notices
> in languages they don't understand from them (so when I'm logged in,
> notices in Chinese don't appear in the public stream, and StatusNet never
> sends me XMPP messages from my friends speaking Hindi).

yup - We can get fancy and do guessing once we've seen how people are
actually using the feature.  perhaps we don't even need the guessing
feature.
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