Comments on: WebFonts in Universal Language Selector, Translation rally

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:29:03 +0000

Completely agree with you DJ and Siebrand. Sometimes I also confused on such presentation. I started keeping them writing down on my note book for not loosing any thing while reading :)

By: Siebrand Mazeland

Siebrand Mazeland — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:31:50 +0000

You’re completely right, Derk-Jan. This is a todo that we are quite aware of.

The two capital letters represent “North America”, “Latin America”, “South America”, “Europe”, “Middle East”, “Africa”, “Asia”, “Pacific” and “Australia”, the codes used for language region in the language database[1].

We’re working on completion of jquery.i18n[2] before we can internationalise the language selector. Have a look at the specifications[3]. Help is welcome implementing them.

[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector.git;a=blob;f=lib/jquery.uls/data/langdb.yaml;hb=HEAD
[2] https://github.com/Wikimedia/jquery.i18n
[3] https://github.com/santhoshtr/jquery.i18n/wiki/Specification

By: TheDJ

TheDJ — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 02:16:57 +0000

I really love the thing, i just have one small issue left.

I don’t like those 2 letter shorts for the different parts of the world. For instance, I started typing “Neder”
I had 5 options. At the top is a section SA. I guess it means “Southern Africa” ??? but it’s confusing to me.