I agree that phonetic is a better, but I didn't have the time to create the map. If you have a map or ordered list, I'd love to have it. I took that approach for the limited list of languages on the home page menu (though I just noticed that Hindi and Kreyol are out of order).
> Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:58:09 -0400 > From: Frederick Grose <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Language Support (Tony Anderson) > Message-ID: > <CAEcBt+WxHVpAvO2YMNS00tzq51hpVAJjH=TbPzCogtXo5d9fGw@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > How you get the list of languages and the translated names? > > On Aug 12, 2015 1:40 PM, "Tim Moody" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I did a language picker for xsce and the approach I took was to put > >> each language in its native form, so Deutsch not German and ?????? not > Hindi. > >> So in Arabic English would still be English. The only quandary is > >> sort order. I chose unicode, which means all the non-Roman scripts > >> come at the end. > >> > > > ?The Sugar Labs wiki sidebar source has a Google Translation section that was > easy to get translated language names. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=edit? > > > ?I attempted to sort the list roughly phonetically? according to common > sounds of Latin alphabet letters. Wikipedia's language letter code sorting > results in something similar due to the selection of the letter codes. > There are errors due to my ignorance of pronunciation. Reliable > pronunciation sources would allow the errors to be corrected. > > Center alignment avoids left-to-right vs right-to-left bias. No attempt to was > made to avoid the horizontal vs vertical reading direction bias. ********************** _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
