Re: [Translation-i18n] Re: How to determine if a message catalog exist?

[martin@v.loewis.de (M. v. Loewis)]

"G=F6ran Uddeborg" <go...@ud...> writes:

> The point of saying "sv:de" would be to prefer an entire Swedish
> translation IF PROGRAM IS TRANSLATED TO THAT LANGUAGE.  And, if not,
> using the German, before defaulting to English.  The point isn't
> really to ask for THOSE PARTICULAR MESSAGES which are translated to
> Swedish, for OTHER MESSAGES try German, and then the default.#

But isn't this precisely what happens? You get the fallbacks on a
per-message basis, not on a per-catalog basis.

Also, is it really the case that Swedes often can read German better
than English?

> I find it a bit unfair to accuse the LANGUAGE feature for making an
> already existing problem SLIGHTLY worse.  It is really SOLVING a quite
> different problem: to select the best of a set of, presumably
> complete, available translations.

I still wonder whether people really do use that feature in that way.
All scenarios I can think of for that appear too unlikely to worry
about.

Regards,
Martin