Re: Idea about support minor languages

Not stupide at all, imho. The more catered Debian is the more inclusive,
and hence a more universal OS.
Same happens with European Portuguese speaking users.I fully support that
idea. Not sure how to implement it.
Regards,

// pedro andrade


On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 3:45 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to discuss an idea. I assume people on that list using a
> wide range of different languages.
>
> Just as an example the language "Faroese" (føroyskt): Based on my
> Wikipedia knowledge and some online discussions I learned that people
> using Faroese are living in a multilingual environment. The speak
> multiple languages (e.g. Faroese, Danish, English), using Faroese
> keyboard layout but English GUI language, etc pp.
>
> So even if a language is there primary language they setup their
> operating system (e.g. Debian) to a different language. Faroese use
> Danish or English for example. Esperanto speaking people setup English
> or Spanish. Not all, but some.
> My point is that people speaking and prefering Faroese would miss the
> Faroese support of a specific application if they setup there operating
> system with Danish or English.
>
> To approach people like this I would propose to add kind of a
> welcome-dialog to an application to inform users about the multi
> language support of this specific application. If the application notice
> the system language is Danish the dialog could say that the application
> also do support Faroese and Islandic. "Just go to the setup language
> menu.".
> I assume by default not all users check the language setup menu of their
> software. Such users would miss the opportunity to use that software
> with there preferred language.
> The background of my question is that if my translators and me invest
> time in supporting "exotic" or "minor" languages the users should know
> about it and don't accidentally miss it.
>
> Technically it is simple. Pseudocode:
> If os_language == "Danish" then inform_about(['Faroese', 'Islandic'])
> If os_language == "Chinese Simplified" then inform_about(['Chinese
> Traditional'])
> If os_language == "Norwegian Nynorsk" then inform_about(['Norwegian
> Bokmål'])
>
> What do you think? Stupid or useless idea?
>
> More users of a specific language do increase the chance to approach
> them as translators.
>
> Kind
> Christian
>
>