[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Translation of Language Names et al.

[Betty Ing]

Thanks for the input, Mike and Shawn.

Would it be possible to have a button "Return to English" on strategic
(or all) screens that are not in the English language?

Betty
 

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:02:23 -0500
 Shawn Boyette <sboyette at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> Mike Rylander wrote:
> 
> > As for what is best, I don't have a strong opinion because I am
> quite
> > unilingual, but I will say that I would personally prefer to see
> the
> > English name of languages displayed when I'm in the English
> interface.
> >  Though my reasoning for that is selfish -- I just want to know
> what's
> > available, for curiosity and testing.
> 
> I think in a public terminal setting, the right thing to do is to
> display language names as natively as possible -- it is impossible to
> know what languages the next person to come along will speak.
> 
> And, playing devil's advocate, what if you, monolingual English
> speaker, sat down where someone had just been using the Japanese
> interface? How would you know to pick ??? :)
> 
> -- 
> Shawn Boyette
> <sboyette at esilibrary.com>