[PATCH] RFC: Changing the language of individual KDE programs

[Thiago Macieira]

Andriy Rysin wrote:
>Could somebody tell me if it really makes sense to have more than one
>fallback language?
>I just can't imagine nice usability if you have more than two languages
> for the same application, in my opinion it's overdesigning and
> confusing and for a note I am not just bilingual :) Like that spagetty
> of Russian, Zulu, Spanish and English for me hard to believe will be
> somehow better than simple Ru/En or Zu/En or Sp/En, it won't be even
> readable unless you have one of language present and others pretty much
> empty.
>
>The only use I can think of is dialects, e.g. if you'd preferred North
>English, if missing then West English then East and then West (just an
>example). But how real is this?

It might be useful in a few cases, like Low German/Low Saxon → German → 
English and Norwegian Nynorsk → Norwegian Bokmål → English.

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