[WG: I18N & L10N] Request for opinions: displaying locales for choosing one

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Please see this ticket (and feel free to comment there if you like)
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23513

NOTE that the ticket has a different suggestion from the one below.
-AZ


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque
<jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are two known places where you can choose a locale. The most
> obvious one is the user preferences language part. The other one is the
> language setting for a site, the default being the user settings.
>
> CLE currently displays the language and country in the locale set for
> the user, the variant is not translated. This makes the labels change
> each time you change your settings. It sometimes makes it harder to
> change when you don't know how the language you want to set is spelled
> in another language.
>
> What would you think of using the following format?
> "{language name in its locale} - {country name in its locale} ({Variant
> if part of locale}) [{locale code}]"
>
> Would you agree on sorting by displayed values, keeping "User Language
> (default)" or its translation first for sites?
>
> Your opinion is needed.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Please note, there seems to be a bug in the language setting for sites.
> They seem to be always using the locale set for the server. Do you
> confirm? Is there a JIRA for this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jean-François
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