Avoiding Problems by Avoiding Decisions

[Andreas Pour]

Maks Orlovich wrote:
> 
> On Monday 17 May 2004 11:40 am, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > That's a good point, but one might do that by always showing a language in
> > its own language, in addition to the selected language.  For example, if
> > you are using an English desktop, German would appear as:
> >
> >   German (Deutsch)
> 
> Practical constraint: we need to somehow check whether the script of the
> translated name can be rendered. Since it's not at all unlikely that a
> West-European install would not be able to render CJK scripts, or Arabic, or
> Hebrew, or one of the Indic scripts, or Cyrillic, or ....; and we don't want
> to have a bunch of boxes.

Again in the spirit of focusing the issue:  if the translation is not there,
there is no point in offering the option (indeed from a usability point of view
it should not be displayed or be greyed out).  If it's a missing font issue, I
wonder if that can be easily detected?  If not one could use an image for the
language name (either as primary or as backup if it can't be rendered).

Ciao,

Dre