Re: Portuguese language variants
Re: Portuguese language variants
- Subject: Re: Portuguese language variants
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:45:01 -0300
At 12:10 -0800 04/03/10, email@hidden wrote:
>From: David Catmull <email@hidden>
>Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:34:23 -0800
>Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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>The System Preferences International pane has three versions of Portuguese - Portugal, Brazil, and regular. If my app has Portugal and Brazil, but not plain Portuguese, and the user has plain Portuguese at the top of their list, the OS uses the next language in the list rather than automatically trying another Portuguese variant. I'm wondering if I need to worry about this case.
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>How likely is it that someone would have plain Portuguese at the top of their language list and not have the other variants next in line?
I think it's relatively unlikely - whoever really cares that much about the differences between pt_BR and pt_PT will probably make sure to select the correct variant they're familiar with; although of course users will do the most unlikely things. ;-)
When I decided to localize for Portuguese, I opted for using pt.lproj only, even though I use the Brazilian terms.
In your case, you could find out whether you have more users in Portugal or in Brazil (assume Brazil if you're unsure), and make pt.lproj a _relative_ symlink pointing at that variant's .lproj folder - that should take care of the particular case you mention. Easily done in a build script.
I suppose that the same will hold for other languages that have regional variants...
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Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"In the affairs of others even fools are wise
In their own business even sages err."
Weblog: http://www.brockerhoff.net/bb/viewtopic.php
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