OTOH, the user experience with names like English.lproj is better.
Just use Get Info in Finder to look at some Apple application's
languages list (or modify it) - it's a real mess of unintelligible
two-letter codes.
I agree. The abbreviation/"letter-codes" are ugly to look at.
It's unnatural and disgusts me. At the very least, end users
should never have to see it. But I'd rather not have the .lproj
bundles named with the abbreviations either. It may be a standard,
but it's not a very good standard for a humane operating environment.
I don't agree with either of these posts because they come from an
English-centric perspective. I think developers should be using the
ISO abbreviations (as Apple has been telling them to do for a long,
long time now) and that the Finder should display localized, human-
readable versions of them in the "Get Info" window.
How is it that the user experience for a Spanish user, for example,
is better when the languages are shown as "English", "Spanish" etc
instead of "Inglés", "Español" and so forth? You said that
abbreviations are "unnatural", "disgusting" and not "humane" (fairly
strong words, perhaps you need to calm down) but I suspect that you
only think so because you speak English... Everybody else in the
world who doesn't speak English probably finds the use of
unabbreviated English language names equally unfriendly and almost as
unintelligible.
I don't know if Apple provides an API for moving back and forth
between the ISO codes and localized human-readable representations of
those codes (needless to say I think it should), but I do know that
at the very least Apple's own software (specifically the Finder)
should be displaying things in the user's own language, whatever that
may be. They do it in the "International" preference pane, so I know
they're capable of it! It's 2005 and there's really no excuse for not
being fully localized.
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