I figured once we had the time and means to translate the site, we'd autodetect the language, and have a dropdown bar or something for manual selection.
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 22:36 -0500, Jason Odoom wrote: > Sure, good idea. Shall it be down manually or with a translation > widget? If not, then it would > be http://ubuntutour.org/english http://ubuntutour.org/spanish > > http://ubuntutour.org/latin and so on? Or http://ubuntutour.org/en > http://ubuntutour.org/sp (or whatever the abbreviation is). > > > > With all due respect, > > > > > > Jason Odoom > https://launchpad.net/~jasonodoom > > > > > Sent from Ubuntu. > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Jan Schuermann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > i think to bring Ubuntu to "normal" computer users the most > important > thing is to get them where they are...and the first thing is > the native > language of users. look at the adverts from Apple or > Microsoft, all > adverts, in my country, for their products are in my language, > so i > automatically have a natural relation to it. > the exisitng websites from http://ubuntu.com and other > resources like > the tour project or the manual project are really great and > powerful > publicity (in English-speaking countries). > why we want to reinvent the wheel? > why not translating all the great Ubuntu sites into the most > common > languages and use the existing corporate identity, instead of > making > something new and confuse the potential new user! > > are here some people from non-english-speaking countries? > > which languages did we have here? > perhaps: > Spanish > Portugues > German > Swedish > Dutch > French > > any other? > > let's try to bring Ubuntu to the people - there are so many > people not > speaking or understanding english very well and Ubuntu > definitely IS a > multilanguage OS why not the "corporate" ressources? > -- > This message was sent from Launchpad by > Jan Schuermann (https://launchpad.net/~visionfactory.net) > using the "Contact this team" link on the Ubuntu-Tour Team > team page > (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour). > For more information see > https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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