Maybe they're just showing off their fancy fonts? ;-)

re: Maybe they're just showing off their fancy fonts? ;-)

Matthew Slyman — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:15:49 GMT

Any respectable language chooser is going to list the languages in two languages at once: NATIVE, and CURRENT-DISPLAY.

The new system is better. There are reasons to switch into a language you can't understand (software development/testing, learning a new language, configuring Windows for someone else.) Only ten days ago, I had to set up a projector with an online media service available in 20+ language options. The people viewing the presentation were Chinese (they required Mandarin). I accidentally selected Japanese, because the people serving up the media had reckoned "If you can't read it, don't switch to it!" Not very good, eh? Fortunately, I asked them to check the setup before the broadcast started.

There is no LOCALE_INATIVENAMECANBECAPITALIZEDIFYOUREALLYREALLYWANTTODOTHAT flag

Sorting it all Out — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:03:19 GMT

You may remember prior blogs like Regarding the overthinking and underimplementing of names from last

re: Maybe they're just showing off their fancy fonts? ;-)

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:54:21 GMT

Dealing with ambiguity is a core competency....

re: Maybe they're just showing off their fancy fonts? ;-)

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:51:16 GMT

:-)

re: Maybe they're just showing off their fancy fonts? ;-)

nitpicker#5 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:55:02 GMT

"The Native Names are a nice way to make sure people who are being steered to their own language while being kind of steered away from other languages you don't know, since those are much more likely to be useless to you."

...do WHAT? (the verb is missing)

re: Maybe they're just showing off their fancy fonts? ;-)

Michael S. Kaplan — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:20:12 GMT

Not at present, no....

re: Maybe they're just showing off their fancy fonts? ;-)

kinokijuf — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:09:26 GMT

Can I download a pseoudolanguage MUI for Vista?