[wp-polyglots] catalan locale on wordpress.org

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

2008/1/10, Francesc Hervada-Sala <francesc at hervada.org>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I think harmonization is good, as far as it does not conflict with
> localisation. The german locale Site de.wordpress.org uses the country name,
> because there are (or could be) other localisations in the same language
> (german) from other countries (i.e. Austria, Switzerland).  If the site
> title were "German", this would be missleading. On the other side, the
> catalan locale Site uses the language name, because this is the localisation
> for all catalan speaking countries (including Spain, France, Andorra and
> Italy), there would never be another catalan locale. There is a big
> difference between a language such as German with 100 Million native
> speakers and a language such as Catalan with under 10 Million native
> speakers. I think this difference at the site title is correct.

That's why site maintainers should choose--they know what's the most
suitable title for their site.

Nikolay.
>
> Von: René Clausen Nielsen
> Datum: Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008 10:19
> An: wp-polyglots at lists.automattic.com
> Betreff: Re: [wp-polyglots] catalan locale on wordpress.org
>
> Sorry to be a pain guys, but maybe we should try a harmonization of the
> locale sites? I for one am +1 on the use of local wording. But how about
> agreeing on either language or country/region? If possible, of course.
>
> That is, should it be "WordPress | Deutsch" or "WordPress | Deutschland",
> "WordPress | Català" or "WordPress | Catalunya", "WordPress | Português
> Brasileiro" or "WordPress | Brasil" and so forth (sorry if I got any of
> those wrong, but I'm sure you get my point).
>
> In my opinion language should be the denominator as WordPress should be a
> global effort in different languages, not specific for different countries.
> If I go to wp.org, I would look for WordPress in another language than
> English, not for WordPress from another country or region.
>
> Whatever your stance on this, I would appreciate it if da.wordpress.org
> could be changed to "Dansk" instead of "WordPress DK".
>
> Cheers,
>
> René
>
>
> 2008/1/9, Nikolay Bachiyski < nbachiyski at developer.bg>:
> > 2008/1/9, Francesc Hervada-Sala < francesc at hervada.org>:
> > I see no way to change the name of this blog, I would like to change at
> the
> > > blog title "Catalan" and put instead "Català" (which is the catalan word
> for
> > > the catalan language). For example there is a "WordPress | Deutschland"
> (not
> > > "WordPress | Germany").
> > >
> > > Could you please tell me how I can change this? Or if I cannot, could
> you
> > > please change it?
> >
> > Changed.
> >
> > Happy translating,
> > Nikolay.
> >
>
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