On 21/09/10 16:48 +0200, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> Don't know, if you got me right. Language (including date format etc.) is 
> just a
> choice of display in the client (same content, but different display of
> data). So no difference between language and date in this respect.

No. Look at your computer, you can change the date format without changing the
date.

> Additionaly:
> If there is a company that puts a policy to have the client used in one
> specific language, I doubt it wants to allow the display of the date
> format in user cutomization. At least it is absolutely unlogic.

Why not? Why user should use the standard date format? I know many people that
doesn't like the standard format fo their language.

> > It is a developper choice to define which fields are translatable and it is 
> > a
> > company choice to define in which languages.
> 
> Which sense does it make to restrict a company from the choice, which fields
> they want to have translated at all (and to impose it solely on the developer,
> who never will know about the specific demands of different enterprises)?

Because making a field translatable has impact on how the code is written, how
the database is performant etc. This is clearly a design choice!

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