On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:25:55 +0200 Greg Hurrell <email@hidden> wrote:
OTOH, the user experience with names like English.lproj is better.
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I agree. The abbreviation/"letter-codes" are ugly to look at.
I don't agree with either of these posts because they come from an
English-centric perspective.
What makes you think so, the .ru domain of my e-mail address? ;-)
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.
As soon as Finder does that (and not only in its latest version, but for a
few years), perhaps. But this mailing list is about Xcode, and I think that
Xcode templates shouldn't be fixed earlier than that.
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?
A Russian user may understand "Spanish", but not "es". And which language
is Swedish, "su", "sv" or "sw"?
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)
Hmm, good point... I don't see this functionality exposed as an API - other
than going straight to ICU, which isn't recommended.
Currently, I have no use for it in my code, but if you do, please file an
enchancement request. It is always better to provide potential use cases and
explain the need (there are some subtle questions with such an API, which may
explain why they haven't exposed it).
- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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