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Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] RE: [Tikiwiki-cvs] tiki/modules mod-switch_lang2.php,NONE,1.1
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From: Michael S. Z. <ms...@go...> - 2003-11-13 14:13:08
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On Thursday 13 November 2003 06:15 am, Sylvie Greverend wrote:
> It is a big usability error to assign a language with a country flag.
Also, many countries have only one flag but multiple national
languages.
> I don't think it is a good idea to put this kind of mistake in tiki, if we
> want to put consider as good multilingual software
> Sylvie
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tik...@li...
> > [mailto:tik...@li...]On Behalf Of
> > mar...@us...
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:14 PM
> > To: tik...@li...
> > Subject: [Tikiwiki-cvs] tiki/modules mod-switch_lang2.php,NONE,1.1
> >
> >
> > Update of /cvsroot/tikiwiki/tiki/modules
> > In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv20621/modules
> >
> > Added Files:
> > mod-switch_lang2.php
> > Log Message:
> > An alternative module-switch_lang2 using the flags.
> >
> > --- NEW FILE: mod-switch_lang2.php ---
> > <?php
> > // tiki-setup has already set the $language variable
> > $languages = array();
> > $languages = $tikilib->list_languages();
> >
> > $langs = array();
> > foreach($languages as $lingua) {
> > switch($lingua["value"]) {
> > case 'cs': $flag = "img/flags/Czech_Republic.gif"; break;
> > case 'da': $flag = "img/flags/Denmark.gif"; break;
> > //case 'de': $flag = "img/flags/Germany.gif"; break;
> > case 'de': $flag = "img/flags/German.gif"; break; // special flag
> > //case 'en': $flag = "img/flags/United_Kingdom.gif"; break;
> > case 'en': $flag = "img/flags/English.gif"; break; // special
> > flag case 'es': $flag = "img/flags/Spain.gif"; break;
> > //case 'el': $flag = "img/flags/Greek.gif"; break;
> > case 'fr': $flag = "img/flags/France.gif"; break;
> > case 'he': $flag = "img/flags/Israel.gif"; break;
> > case 'it': $flag = "img/flags/Italy.gif"; break;
> > case 'ja': $flag = "img/flags/Japan.gif"; break;
> > case 'nl': $flag = "img/flags/Netherlands.gif"; break;
> > case 'no': $flag = "img/flags/Norway.gif"; break;
> > case 'pl': $flag = "img/flags/Poland.gif"; break;
> > case 'ru': $flag = "img/flags/Russia.gif"; break;
> > case 'sv': $flag = "img/flags/Sweden.gif"; break;
> > case 'tw': $flag = "img/flags/Taiwan.gif"; break;
> > case 'cn': $flag = "img/flags/China.gif"; break;
> > default: $flag = "img/flags/Other.gif";
> > }
> > $tmp = array();
> > $tmp["value"] = $lingua["value"];
> > $tmp["name"] = $lingua["name"];
> > $tmp["flag"] = $flag;
> > $langs[] = $tmp;
> > }
> > $smarty->assign_by_ref('languages', $langs);
> > ?>
> >
> >
> >
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