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On 18 Apr 2016 11:10, Rafal Luzynski wrote: > 18.04.2016 04:40 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15262 > > do we have policy/guidance on the use of english chars in the yes/no > > regexes ? of the 202 locales that define yesexpr/noexpr, 195 of them > > include [Yy]/[Nn], most of which aren't english. > > > > my take: at the risk of being called anglocentric, we should add > > [Yy] & [Nn] to all locales > > Sounds reasonable to me. From my own experience and from my contacts > with other developers from neighboring countries it seems to me that > hardcore computer users (software engineers, admins, scientists, long > time users) are used to English and sometimes even prefer English over > their own native languages and sometimes may involuntary press Y/N > instead of their native version even if the software is localized. > My point is that adding [Yy] and [Nn] can make some people happy and > will not hurt anybody. > > Note: Make sure that [Yy] and [Nn] are not already used for the opposite > meaning (that [Yy] does not mean "no" or [Nn] does not mean "yes") > because in that case this change would be harmful. a very good point. there's 5 languages where this comes up: yo.xml: <yesstr>Bááni :N</yesstr> sw.xml: <yesstr>Ndiyo:N</yesstr> guz.xml: <nostr>Yaya:Y</nostr> az.xml: <nostr>yox:y</nostr> uz.xml: <nostr>yoâq:y</nostr> at least yo_NG is broken on our side. > - no, please don't drop [Oo] (Oui) from en_CA unless preserving [Oo] > causes some technical issues; i split this out into the other reply by Keld > - yes, please use [ÐÐDdYy] and if possible for both sr_RS and sr_RS@latin; > I guess that some Serbian users may use different keyboard layouts and > switch between them, it would be easier for them if the software could > read their intention correctly even if they forget to switch their > keyboard layout to Latin. script variants are much easier to handle as we have that data :). -mike
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