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

But then we wouldn't get Google points. :)

Thanks,
  Sam

On Feb 14, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Greg Bildson wrote:

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>> -----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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