[Gpg4win-devel] Language selection?

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi GunChleoc,

On Friday 17 April 2015 at 19:38:01, Fòram na Gàidhlig wrote:
> I have just finished translating Enigmail into Scottish Gaelic and I
> am interested in translating the installer and Kleopatra as well.
>
> From what I have read on the web, language selection would be forced
> by the operating system's language or locale. Is this true?

as far as I know, it is implemented so that the system's language and locale 
is the default. This is what most users expect. You can override the default, 
but this is not obvious.

> If so, I won't be translating, because most users won't be able to
> select the language - computers come with en-GB pre-installed and the
> average user won't know how to change this :'(

I can see that this is a problem for you and a language that is less spread.
The problem probably goes beyond kleopatra then, you'll have it for all 
applications that you would want to translate. So it calls for a general 
solution. A world in which a Gaelic speaker has to check the language 
settings on each of her applications does provide a bad user experience as 
well. So what could you do?

Maybe come up with a general gui application that changes the locale?

If you are working on a translation for an application, you could also suggest 
a patch to the documentation. Or instructions to a general page for Gaelic 
users.

Best,
Bernhard


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