Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Localisation gone wild

In a modern world, I think it might even be the 
time to do away with the locale-language 
connection. Even the locale data regulation span 
might be reduced somewhat.

More, with the major culture-data-employing 
entities (CLDR, Google, what-have-you) all 
having their outlooks competitively grown by 
crowdsource, it's becoming progressively more 
inconvenient to rely on the traditional 
locale-based ways to do things.

E.g., personally, I'm not thrilled when google 
constantly tries to force some off-beat -- 
what's worse, unmodifiable -- version of 
Belarusian on me if I'm accessing it from 
geographical location in Belarus.

Topic-wise, it's not always convenient to have 
locale dictating some of the choices in OOO 
components -- what is to be gained these days 
from the locale's default currency (eh?) field 
or from locale's language field? Or one might 
want to prepare a paper for a journal founded on 
quite a different conventions for what a 
thousand separator is.

To conclude, it's seems reasonable to expect of 
a person installing to know one language of 
choice and so to offer the choice of 
installation process language. It seems 
reasonable to expect the language of UI and help 
also to be a subject of preference. And that's 
that, really. No second-guessing anything else, 
please?

On 03/12/2013 01:18 AM, Michael Bauer wrote:
> This reminds me a bit of Android actually. I use
> an app called custom locale to get around the
> frustrating force-locale issue in order to force
> various apps to show up in Gaelic but that
> aside, it has a bizarre impact on the weather
> app. It cause the app to fluctuare between
> English and Gaelic city/town names. Some days I
> get "Glasgow", some days I get "Glaschu" - even
> though AFAIK the app hasn't been localized (just
> the standard weather app that comes with my
...

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