Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Dec 14, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Danilo Šegan wrote:
> ...
> On Monday at 11:48, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > Ideally Epiphany's language preferences wouldn't be in Epiphany, 
> > they'd be in a system-wide preferences tool (as they are for Windows 
> > Internet Explorer with the "Regional Settings" control panel, and for 
> > Safari and other Mac browsers with the "International" preferences 
> > pane). The language list it configured would also determine the 
> > default for Totem's subtitle/audio language, and for any other 
> > application that needs to know your preferred languages (such as an 
> > ISV's app that ships with its own translations).
>
> If I remember correctly, Epiphany uses the language from the locale as
> the default (I have since set my languages in there manually, since
> "sr-CS, sr" caused some web site to crash, and I wanted to add "hr" in
> my list as well).
> ...

Right, and the reason Epiphany can't *solely* use the language from the 
locale is that (as I understand it) the locale can refer to only one 
language. There is no way to say, for example, "I prefer reading stuff 
in Swiss German, but if that's not available, give me Swiss French or 
France French". It would be good if this list could be set system-wide.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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