[MAGNOLIA-3487] Introduce super-fallback language Created: 04/Jan/11 Updated: 04/Nov/15 Resolved: 04/Nov/15 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Magnolia |
| Component/s: | gui, i18n |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Neutral |
| Reporter: | Zdenek Skodik | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Won't Do | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | None | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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| Description |
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Since we started with moving outputs of the international effort into real world, people tend more and more to switch from English at all. On the other hand the i18n process is a constant work-in-progress and as such it will always lag behind default English localization which will most likely be the only one language kept up to date. Since we used to release a properties files just with few translated keys, you can easily end up with a pretty malformed interface with few languages and missing values of a lot of keys (the ???key??? notation) like f.e. with current stk-1.4.1. Thus it would be nice to introduce a super fallback language so the i18n chain will be like this: user's language -> configured fallback language -> English. |
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| Comment by Michael Mühlebach [ 04/Nov/15 ] |
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Given the thousands of other issues we have open that are more highly requested, we won't be able to address this issue in the foreseeable future. Instead we will focus on issues with a higher impact, and more votes. |