Am 18.09.2011 um 21:36 schrieb Liviu Andronic: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: >> I cannot believe any user expects English as default document language >> when using LyX the first time in a non-english environment. >> > I we start playing with that, this could become a thorny issue. Should > we start using the locale to guess & set the main language to English > Canada, UK, US, or "plain"?
The environment should help here. en_CA, en_UK, en_US, ?plain? > Or the two flavours for French: "plain" > (France, I assume) or "Canada"? fr_FR, fr_CA > In the same spirit, we have two > Chinese, 4 German de_DE, de_CH, de_AT, de_BE etc... In german we have to decide between german and ngerman as a special case though. But the official choice would be ngerman... Stephan > , 2 Greek, 2 Norwegian (and both are for Norway) and > 2 Spanish flavours, among others. I'm not sure that we want to play a > guessing game with these, since chances are that we won't set the > correct default document language and the user would still need to do > it manually (or create her own defaults). If we mis-guess this, then > she would have a harder time realizing that she was using the wrong > language all along; when it's in English from the start and she writes > in French, the spellchecker will quickly inform her of the issue. > > Regards > Liviu
