Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Localisation gone wild

Hi :) 
If you happen to live in a country where the dominant language is not your own then when you buy a 
computer which language is the LibreOffice installer in?  
1.  your own language 
2.  the dominant language of the country 
3.  English (US) 
What about countries that have many different languages; some by region, some by class or religion, 
some by origin.  

Obviously you can change it or add different languages but you have to understand the default 
language enough to be able to navigate your way around.  Apparently in Japan it's not possible to 
buy a machine with Japanese on it.  Keyboards have English as the main letter on each key and it is 
not even easy to find one that has Japanese characters even as 2nd place.  There are many other 
reasons why a person's computer might be talking a language that is not easy for them to 
understand.  Here is how the Ubuntu installer gets around the problem.  Their installer lists 
languages with each name written in the language it relates to ...   

My machine's "Regional settings" are set to English so i get this at first ... 
<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4042985/Ubuntu-English-v2.png>
However if i use the keyboard arrows to move down a bit then i get to Greek like this ... 
<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4042985/Ubuntu-%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC-v2.png>
a side-note is that the installer's dialogue box's size increases to accommodate the increase in 
paragraph size.   

Of course it's a bit annoying for me because i can't read Japanese or Greek.  So if i want to 
install in Japanese for one of my colleagues then i don't know the difference between Chinese, 
Korean, Japanese or other ones that look similar to me  (errr, ok i cheated and used Google 
translate).  I think the LibreOffice installer  might be even better if it could have 2 columns 
with the 2nd column being a listing in whichever language happens to be selected at the time.  For 
example in the 1st screen-shot the columns would show the 3 languages i'm using as examples as 
English      English 
ελληνικά   Greek 
日本人         Japanese 

but in the 2nd screen-shot they would appear as 
English      Αγγλικά 
ελληνικά   ελληνικά 
日本人        ιαπωνικά 

I just wondered if that is the sort of thing people would like to see?  Would it be too difficult 
for the dev's to manage?   
Regards from 
Tom :)  
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