Languages should not be translated in the select box
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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language-selector (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: language-selector
In any other system (Windows, Mac OS X, or in Mediawiki), the language select box is not translated. This help a user know to turn into his prefered language without knowing what his language is called in the current locale.
However, language-selector in Ubuntu translates this list. Concretely, line 118-125 from LanguageSelecto
Because of these two problems, we think unanimously that this should be changed: language should not be translated in that select box. Cf. the discussion (in Vietnamese):
http://
Best regards,
Hello Hai-Nam,
Thanks for your help to make Ubuntu better by posting this suggestion. If I understand it correctly, you are talking about the language list that is displayed in the "Installed Languages" window, and you would prefer to have the language names displayed in respective native language rather than the current display language. That might be achieved by changing line 725 in LanguageSelecto r/gtk/GtkLangua geSelector. py from
lang_name = self._localeinf o.translate( lang.languageCo de)
to
lang_name = self._localeinf o.translate( lang.languageCo de, native=True)
I'm not sure that would be a desirable change to most Ubuntu users, though. Let me ask: Would it make sense to drop the prefix you mention in the Vietnamese translation? After all, the column title is "Language", so you might consider "Tiếng" be implicitly prefixed.