Re: [Bodington-developers] i18n res updated : fixed

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

> Isn't it better to have some parts of the application
> localised than none?
agreed - do you want this for 2.6? could probably delegate missing string=
s
to the default language.

Alistair


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Alistair Young
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> Alistair Young wrote:
>
>> There's nothing stopping someone changing the language to "ru" and
>> getting
>> an unusable bod.
>
> Shouldn't Bod just display the default strings (english?) if the
> translated version of some resource doesn't exist.
>
> Otherwise we get to the situation that someone does a translation to
> french for example. Then we add some new tools (eg  my ACL tool) which
> uses i18n.
>
> Now we have the situation where unless someone translates the ACL tool
> french users won't be able to upgrade as they will no longer be able to
> select french as the language.
>
> We need to have the idea of a default language that the localiser falls
> back to if it can't find the localised version of that string. This way
> we don't have to delay software releases so that all the translators ca=
n
> do thier work. Isn't it better to have some parts of the application
> localised than none?
>
>
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