On 14/05/2020 16:42, Stephen Kellat wrote: > My replies will be interspersed below. > > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 07:01:23PM +0400, Yousuf Philips wrote: >> Yes i do agree that having multiple English translations seems weird and a >> waste of time for translators, so maybe we should consider not having >> multiples of it, similarly for French. > > I thought we had removed the different English localities before I went away > on the blank years. > >> Though any language is spoken globally, it originates from one country, and >> when people hear the name of a language, they will associate it with the >> country that it came from and using that country flag to present the >> language is useful IMO. > > To reiterate a point from the discussion Saturday that seriously gets into > the long grass in terms of nationalism and nationalistic pride. We must not > go there. This checklist from the federal department of Health & Human > Services in the USA keeps it pretty simple about how to address multiple > languages: "Present links to foreign language materials in their language.". > See: > https://www.hhs.gov/web/building-and-managing-websites/development-process-and-milestones/website-requirements-checklist/index.html > >> The likelihood of us having Canadian French and Canadian English is pretty >> much nil, so i doubt we'd ever have a Canadian flag, and that goes for most >> languages spoken outside of the main country where the language originated >> from, unless there is a large enough diversion of the language. > > We wouldn't want to forget the languages spoken by First Nations in Canada > either. > >> We can take our installer slides as an example of what may come as future >> translations. English (Australia) and English (UK) and simply copy and >> pastes of the source English. French (Canada) is a copy and paste of >> French. >> https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/+pots/ubiquity-slideshow-xubuntu >> >> Ultimately, if it is only me who sees this as a benefit, it won't be >> implemented and the issue can be voted on in an upcoming meeting to >> finalize a decision. >> >> > > I don't have voting privileges these days but I will agree with Pasi on not > utilizing flags. > > Stephen Michael Kellat > > [snip] >
I agree on not using flags. Paul > -- Paul Sutton https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/ gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D Get a free mastodon account at https://qoto.org/invite/pN8gdTzi -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
