Re: [NSIS-devel] 2nd argument to LANGFILE macro

[Amir S. <ki...@gm...>]

Sounds good to me.

On Jul 8, 2010 6:49 PM, "Wizou" <sou...@wi...> wrote:
> There are discrepancies among the language files regarding the meaning
> of the 2nd argument to the LANGFILE macro.
> It seems that sometimes it is the name of the language in english,
> sometimes it's the localized name.
>
> If I'm right, the idea behind the 2nd argument is that it should be a
> name that can be displayed correctly on every system (for ANSI installers)
> Which means the 2nd argument can only be a localized version if it
> contains plain ASCII (0..127) characters, right ?
> For example, "Français" was sadly changed to "French" because of that.
> (see also bug tracker ID 2979786)
> Then, why is "Español" not changed to "Spanish" ?
>
> In fact, I think we should try to keep them localized at maximum rather
> than English, using "close" characters from the ASCII range if possible
> (and if the language purists allow it)
> For example, we could have "Francais" and "Espanol"
> (as a french guy, I wouldn't be offended by the missing cedil, and I
> would appreciate to see the name of the language localized)
>
>
> On a related note, I will add a 3rd argument to the macro which is the
> exact localized version of the language, and will use it only instead of
> 2nd argument when building Unicode installers.
>
>
>
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