A Language-Based Paradigm (Was Re: Avoiding Problems by Avoiding Decisions)

[Shawn Gordon]

At 01:15 PM 5/14/2004, you wrote:

> > The key is, it is not *country*-based, b/c really, the choice has nothing
> > to do with a country.  I may choose the German language although I live in
>
>Well, some of the settings do have to do w/the country --- at least the
>currency sign does. And although for example some Hispanic Americans may
>prefer a Spanish translation, they still would want $ to denote the currency
>(and perhaps the imperial units). I don't know how the preferences for things
>like the decimal separator vary though.

Maybe the answer is that too much stuff is being tied together, during a 
start up wizard why don't you select language, currency, numeric 
formatting, time zone, etc.  If you put the name of the language in the 
native tongue like Deutsch instead of German, then it seems like that would 
solve it.  Maybe I'm being hopelessly naive, but I've similar problems in 
the past with similar solutions.



Regards,

Shawn Gordon
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