Localization Ideas

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

Well... I have to say, that I have the same preference with russian. A
lot of russians actually like to have menus and stuff translated, but I
prefer that everything stays in english except when I want to type
something in russian or read something in russian. My solution to this
was rather simple. I set my locale to en_US.utf8 (default in Hoary) and
since this is Unicode, with proper fonts I have no trouble displaying
and editing  russian texts. Basically, I use GNOME keyboard config to
add russian keyboard layout, install MS web fonts (since they have
proper russian characters) and I am all set. Here is a sample screenshot
of my desktop.

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 20:26 +0200, seadog at sealabs.net wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I have some suggestions to improve localization in ubuntu. Here in
> Greece we have some not so common preferences about our desktop.
> Although we like to be able to read, write in greek, display the time in
> european format, we prefer a4 paper size most of us don't prefer greek
> speaking menus. Because our language it's not Latin based, the
> terminology is *completly* different from english and we have some
> difficult time trying to understand unsuccessfull tanslations in greek.
> So we generally prefer to see messages in the original, english speeking
> format. This problem may sound too much but believe me it's really a
> problem.
> 
> 	Other similar problems may arise with other languages. What I am
> suggesting is to create some fancy menu - like localeconf of debian - to
> make any special selections on locale vars like LC_MESSAGES. This should
> happen from the installer write after the "keyboard choose" menu.
> 
> Please consider the idea and email me with suggestions and remarks.
> 
> thanks in advance
> g.l.
> 
> 
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