Re: [Tuxmath-devel] How to choose yor language

[Fòram na G. <fi...@fo...>]

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Fòram na Gàidhlig
> <fi...@fo... <mailto:fi...@fo...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everybody,
>
>     I am looking at Open Source games to translate into Scottish Gaelic and
>     I think Tux of Math Command is a worthy candidate.
>
>     I have already found the PO files, but no option to actually choose the
>     language in-game. Since Gaelic is a minority language and most users
>     will have an English language (or even German or Russian language)
>     operating system, Detect Locale Is Evil.
>
>
> Yikes!  I assume you mean it is "Evil" that detection of system locale
> is currently the only way to set one's language, not that it is evil for
> Tuxmath to try to honor locale settings when present :)


Of course, using Detect Locale is fine to preselect a language, as long 
as there is an option available to change it. I often come across 
software though where the devs haven't thought about people wanting to 
use a language other than their OS language, and there is no option to 
change it.

I'm sorry if I went a bit overboard with this, but for minority 
languages this is a constant problem. Operating systems are the least 
flexible software you can get as to language availability, yet other 
software tends to build on it. For example, I have a Gaelic language 
Browser with Gaelic as my preferred browser language set up, and what 
does Google Maps do? That's right, ignore all that and read my system 
locale and give me German ...

A friend of mine has blogged on this problem, if you're interested 
http://akerbeltzalba.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/detect-locale-manna-from-heaven-or-hellspawn/

/rant *lol*



>     Could you please look into adding a menu option somewhere, so users can
>
>     choose their language?
>
>
> That indeed is a very good and repeatedly-requested feature that we have
> never gotten around to implementing.
>
> Also, while I cannot claim to be Scottish given that my family has been
> in North America for several generations, my direct paternal ancestors
> did emigrate from Scotland to Canada around 1790, so I am delighted to
> hear of your interest!

That's great! I am actually not Scottish myself, I just love the 
language to bits :)