Hello Petar, Lack of standards is the main problem. I understand. So it is up to us to choose. :)
There is urlify function for SEO. I added mappings for Cyrillic, and made jQuery plugin for the forms outside the admin app. And accusative... Admin app would be perfect without that annoyance. On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Petar Marić <petar.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Janoš, > > I'm the other original Serbian translator :) > > When Nebojša and me were originally translating Django to Serbian we > had a long discussion on how to support both Serbian scripts. At the > time (2005) the browsers weren't reporting the scripts correctly - see > http://www.petarmaric.com/entry/2007/mar/20/ie6-izbor-izmedju-latinice-ili-cirilice/ > AFAIK IE7 still has this problem and Firefox didn't even provide you > with a choice. > The even bigger problem was the lack of standards for marking scripts: > sr_LAT, sp_yu, sh_sp, sh_yu, sh, cs, sr_LAT_CS, s...@latn, sr-lat, > sr-lat-utf-8, sr-latin, sr_yu just to name a few. > > So since we couldn't support both scripts reliably we defaulted on > Latin, mainly because using Cyrillic would be a SEO equivalent of > suicide at the time. > > If I were to choose today I would only go for Cyrillic as "sr" code, > and drop Latin script support altogether - Google and FaceBook also do > this. > > PS: Just for heads up - if you're also updating translations the > problem you are sure to run into sooner or later is the need for > accusative, but the lack of support for it - which leads to silly > sounding translations. > > Regards, > -- > Petar Marić > *e-mail: petar.ma...@gmail.com > *mobile: +381 (64) 6122467 > > *icq: 224720322 > *jabber: petar.ma...@gmail.com > *web: http://www.petarmaric.com/ > > > > -- Janoš Guljaš <ja...@janos.in.rs> WWW: http://www.janos.in.rs GPG: public key ID 61D97459, http://www.janos.in.rs/janosguljas.asc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django I18N" group. To post to this group, send email to Django-I18N@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-i18n+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Django-I18N?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
