[haiku-development] Non-latin names in AboutSystem
- From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Development Haiku ML" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:36:35 +0100
Hi there!
Forwarded message from the GCI mentor list:
> 2011.12.30 09:25, Humdinger rašė:
> >> Βαγγέλης Μαμαλάκης
> >> Γιάννης Κωνσταντινίδης
> >
> > Does anyone know if there's a policy to use "standard characters"
> > in
> > AboutSystem instead of Greek characters in this case?
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:08:16 +0200 Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> I think it would probably make most sense to write names in both
> alphabets: latin and original. Or maybe even better: locale and
> original
> (e.g. russians could transliterate all names into Cyrillic alphabet,
> this would require the names to be localizable). What do you think?
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:15:26 +0200 Siarzhuk Zharski wrote:
> They can become unreadable in case current font for About dialog on
> the
> user system has no corresponding national characters. At least cyrilic
> names are added usually in transliterated form.
What do you say, keep latin ("transliterated") characters to be more or
less universally readable/displayable or have all names localized so the
language managers can decide to put everything into the squiggly-twirly
characters of their language?
Regards,
Humdinger
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