RE: [gui-dev] Language names in message bundles

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Thanks
-greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Sam Berlin
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 12:53 PM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [gui-dev] Language names in message bundles
>
>
> Take a look at the Traditional Chinese bundle or the Portuguese
> (Brasilian)
> bundle to see an example of why they're different ( at
> http://www.limewire.org/fisheye/viewrep/~raw,r=MAIN/limecvs/lib/me
> ssagebundl
> es/MessagesBundle_zh_TW.UTF-8.txt &
> http://www.limewire.org/fisheye/viewrep/~raw,r=MAIN/limecvs/lib/me
> ssagebundl
> es/MessagesBundle_pt_BR.properties ).  In order to build the
> Windows (NSIS)
> installer with a list of viable languages, we need the languages in the
> codes that NSIS understands.  For Traditional Chinese, this name is
> 'TradChinese', but on our website we want to show it was 'Chinese
> (Traditional)'.  For the most part, these names will be the same
> -- but they
> won't always be.
>
> If you look also at this changeset ( at
> http://limewire.org/fisheye/changelog/limecvs/lib/messagebundles/c
> om/limegro
> up/gnutella/i18n?cs=MAIN:sberlin:20050110230546 ), it adds support to the
> messagebundle's CountPercent class so that using the 'nsis' name
> will print
> out the names of release-quality languages in codes that NSIS understands,
> so we can provide a list while building that installer.
>
> Thanks,
>  Sam
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:gui-dev-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy
> > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 12:41 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [gui-dev] Language names in message bundles
> >
> > I don't know the difference between these two resources defined in
> > messagesbundles for language names:
> >
> > (example in the French resource file)
> >
> > LOCALE_ENGLISH_LANGUAGE_NAME=French
> > LOCALE_NSIS_NAME=French
> >
> > Shouldn't it be LOCALE_NSIS_NAME=Français
> > like for LOCALE_LANGUAGE_NAME=Français
> >
> > Or is there effectively the need to use a recognized language name only
> > in English and in a specific form for the NSIS installer, which may
> > sometimes be different from the detailed English name we use on our web
> > site? Or is that because NSIS will automatically locate a resource
> > named "LOCALE_NSIS_NAME"? Or because NSIS limits the length of the
> > language name?
> >
> > In summary, why the new LOCALE_NSIS_NAME resource had to be defined?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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