DocumentationArea proposal regarding languages

[John Hornbeck]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 21:25 +0100, Ben Edwards (lists) wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 15:10 -0500, John Hornbeck wrote:
> 
> > > I also noticed the Spanish pages start Spanish rather then Espanola -
> > > not really for me to say as I am a ignorant englishman (i.e. I don't
> > > speak any other languages) but it seems sensible for the Native
> > > 'spelling' of the language to be used rather than the English one.  Now
> > > all we need is for someone to take on the Basque translation ;)
> > > 
> > This is a common thing I find everywhere.  I work in a library and the
> > whole spanish section has a huge sign saying "Spanish" and the
> > Japanise(sp?) has the same instead of the spelling the language uses.
> 
> My take on this is that it shows respect for Non English speaking
> visitors to have there language in... there language;)
> 
> Your library is in an English speaking country -yes - so I would expect
> the labeling to be in English - the web is accessed iternationaly.
I still think even though it is a english speaking library that the
non-english areas should be in the said language.

JohnHornbeck
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