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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 1.1.2 and language support problem
From:       "Carlo Robazza" <carlor () corel ! com>
Date:       1999-10-19 2:34:24
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I realize that the second and third selectors are fallbacks in case the first
isn't available. Here is a more graphic description of what I have found...

Scenario 1:
Choice 1. US English
Choice 2. UK English          Color displayed as Colour
Choice 3. US English

Scenario 2:
Choice 1. US English
Choice 2. US English          Color displayed as Colour
Choice 3. UK English

Scenario 3:
Choice 1. US English
Choice 2. US English          Color displayed as Color
Choice 3. US English

So why, if choice 1 is set to US English for scenarios 1 and 2, does it still
display the UK spelling for color whereas the only way to get the US spelling
for color, you must select US English for all three choices?

Thanks,

Carlo.


Cristian Tibirna wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Carlo Robazza wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have run into a situation that I find very confusing and was hoping
> > someone could explain what is going on. In Control Center, the languages
> > module (kcmlocale), if you set all languages to US English, then the
> > word "color" appears as "color". If you set any one of the 3 choices to
> > UK English, then "color" appears as "colour" (the UK spelling).
> >
> > Now, if the US spelling for "color" can be found when all three choices
> > are set to US English, then why can't it be found when one of the
> > choices is set to UK English?
> >
>
> The second and third locale selectors are fallbacks. That means that the
> first selection will be checked for locale matches. If no avail, the
> matching is attempted using the second selection. But if matching the
> first selection succeeds the other two are happilly ignored.
>
> That means, it the UK English has to be selected *in the first selector*
> in order to the UK English to be used.
>
> What I use (and I do so just for the fun of it, just because this is so
> handy and so unavailable in the computer industry that it's funny :-):
> selector 1) Romanian (romanian gets preferentially matched)
> selector 2) French   (if occasionally the romanian translation misses)
> selector 3) C        (if no translation at all exists)
>
> You can joily see on my desktop apps with Romanian menus and French status
> bars, which pop up English dialogs :-)
>
> Thanks
>
> Cristian
>
> Cristian Tibirna     : ctibirna@total.net     : www.total.net/~ctibirna
> PhD Student          : ctibirna@gch.ulaval.ca : web.gch.ulaval.ca/~ctibirna
> KDE contact - Canada :  tibirna@kde.org       : www.kde.org

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