Re: Support for Hungarian, Russian, Polish in Jaguar?

FROM : Andrew Zamler-Carhart
DATE : Fri Jan 24 20:56:41 2003

Douglas,

One problem with using "bi.lproj" is that if you click on an
application (i.e. OmniWeb), choose Get Info, and show the languages,
you see a bunch of two letter codes. It would be nice if Mac OS X
applied the same "get the name for the two letter code" algorithm that
the International pref pane uses when displaying languages in the Get
Info window.

Andrew

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 09:51  AM, Douglas Davidson wrote:

> Actually, what we recommend for the .lproj name is not the English
> name of the language, but the ISO 639-1 two-letter code.  This is an
> international standard, independent of the development language.  For
> Hungarian, you would thus use hu.lproj; for Bislama, bi.lproj.  It is
> the System Preferences application that does you the service of
> presenting a native name (e.g. Magyar) for the language.  Presumably
> those who can use the language will recognize it in this form.  (In
> future there may be some alternative presentation, e.g. in the
> localization the user is currently using.)  This is a matter of
> convenience, however; for proper operation all that is required is
> that the localization as listed in the AppleLanguages preference match
> the .lproj name.