https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59901
Eike Rathke <er...@redhat.com> changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Eike Rathke <er...@redhat.com> ---
While having language names in their native language is fine for
interfaces where a user only wants to pick his/her own language, it is
not desirable for interfaces where several languages can be chosen for
different purposes that are not native to the user. Let me explain some
disadvantages:
* a document containing language attribution the user doesn't know the
native name of, s/he will see a meaningless entry in the language list
* seeing the language list, a user will not know what languages are
offered except those s/he can somehow deduce
* wanting to prepare a document with different locale settings (e.g.
using different currencies or formatting) the user would have to know
the native names
* a developer adding a language to the language listbox would have to
know that name in the native language; yes, CLDR in the mean time
provides native names of most frequently used languages, but not for
the not so frequently used that now are occasionally requested; s/he'd
have to take the word of the one requesting that language
* for developers this gets even more cumbersome for languages that can
be written in different scripts, or scripts the developer doesn't know
at all; would you know how to correctly write Arabic and enter it on
your native keyboard? Or Mongolian in the Mongolian script? You'd have
to rely on copy&paste and pray that your editor handles all Unicode
characters, RTL writing direction and so forth.
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