language labels

language labels

[Hans Hagen]

Hi All,

I suggest that

\starthackers           dutch           english
                         german          czech
                         italian         romanian

             ambitious : oblomov         bilotta
                         bigfoot         guesswho
                         giuseppe        bourbaki

\stophackers

collects the language translations.

These should be 'labels' (lang-lab) and not interface things, unless i 
misunderstand the purpose. Labels also permit accents and non latin chars.

so, any language supported should be mapped (20*20 matrix)

Depending on the amount, i can put'm in a module or lang-* file

Hans
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Re: language labels

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Thursday, February 07, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> These should be 'labels' (lang-lab) and not interface things, unless i
HH> misunderstand the purpose. Labels also permit accents and non latin chars.

HH> so, any language supported should be mapped (20*20 matrix)

HH> Depending on the amount, i can put'm in a module or lang-* file

I wasn't thinking of them for labels/translations, actually, but
for language selection: \language[it] => \language[italian] (with
English interface) \lingua[italiano] (with Italian interface) and
so on and so forth. This would mean changing the language names
from system constants to interface constants (or at least
considering the interface constants alongside the system
constants.)

Of course it would also be no problem to set the labels up
as well.

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta