Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for Fr eeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-10 Thread Bret Johnson
So, it sounds like Eric would suggest just sticking with two-letter language codes for LANG, use LANG if it exists (without any verification testing), and maybe have a command-line override switch? ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.so

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for Fr eeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-10 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Bret Johnson wrote: The problem with this approach is something like Belgium. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but Belgium does not have its own language -- some parts of the country are French and other parts are German. There is a Belgian country code and a Belgian ke

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for Fr eeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bret, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes I would say the FreeDOS tradition is to use 2 letter codes without explicitly specifying the intended codepage, because both setting LANG and loading the codepage are typically done in config and autoexec and it is easy to edit bo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for Fr eeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-10 Thread Bret Johnson
I've been working with Thraex on the translations of my PRTSCR program to French and Turkish. I want to thank Thraex for volunteering, and am still working through the technical details on implementation. I've ran into a few items that I would like some opinions on how to handle them. These h

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for Fr eeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Jim Hall
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 1:14 PM Bret Johnson wrote: > > > really? Like in 'Could you provide the German resources?' > > if true, I have done that wrong for the last 50 years. > > Insights from native english/american (English/American) people? > > In English, proper names (including things like la

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for Fr eeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Bret Johnson
> really? Like in 'Could you provide the German resources?' > if true, I have done that wrong for the last 50 years. > Insights from native english/american (English/American) people? In English, proper names (including things like languages and countries) are almost always capitalized. I can't