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Re: Local/native langauge forms of country names
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:35:09 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
> Todd:
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> Just like Larry, would I find it very useful to have the
> country names in my native language[1] on the /loc/ page. It
> is kind of messy to mix several languages on the same page.
> Even if it is just place names. How do you choose how to
> sort? And what about non-latin letters?
For right now, it's sorting ASCIIbetically, which is bad, and messes up
Austria, for one.
> The "correct" solution would of cause be to react based on
> the first language listed in "Accept-Language" and only use
> the mixed-language version if you haven't heard of that
> language before. That way Larry could get a plain American
> page, and the French could get a plain French page[2].
I would *looove* to do that. But where, oh, where will I find a n^2 list of
country names in multiple languages? Maybe just starting with a few would
be OK, and default to natural forms if they're not defined?
> 1) Danish (Faroese is only my second language).
Is Faroese spoken in Denmark or is it from another area?
> 2) I seem to remember that you can write French.
I can read and write a little bit of German (had that in school) but for
writing French, I just used AltaVista's automatic language translator
utility. Its output was far from perfect, but seemed to be about 80%
accurate, which was better than nothing (I hope :).
--Todd
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| Todd: Just like Larry, would I find it very useful to have the country names in my native language[1] on the /loc/ page. It is kind of messy to mix several languages on the same page. Even if it is just place names. How do you choose how to sort? (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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