Re: [native-lang] Main Page - maybe translate it?

On 17/12/2006, at 1:43 AM, Konrad Stobiecki wrote:

> Hey!
>
> I tried to imagine that I am an entrepreneur who does not know  
> English.
> I enter www.openoffice.org and see "Native Language" leading to native
> projects. But if I do not know English, I leave the web page convinced
> that I am not able to find the language version of OpenOffice.org that
> suits me.
>
> That is why I thought about a language picker. I have made one for
> Polish Project leading to other language projects. I could paste the
> code if needed.

I have already mentioned this on <[email protected]>. I  
agree that it's a key point in accessibility for OpenOffice.org.

In particular, if you don't use the same alphabet as the main page,  
without the language codes, flags or some kind of conventional  
language picker, you are completely lost.

Imagine if the page were in an alphabet you can't read at all:  
Arabic, Chinese, Thai, Ogham. You wouldn't understand a single word  
of the page. That's where symbols, like language codes and flags, in  
a conventional language bar or language picker as expected online,  
makes such a difference.

As a minor example, please see the language bar used on this wiki page:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen

I have copied this reply to the dev@website list. Could we have some  
action on this matter, please?

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN