Re: multilingual tags

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 09/09/06, Thomas PARIS <mercen mercen org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> <introduction type=long>
>
> Believe it or not, even though I have already started looking at f-spot
> code and have already contributed one (trivial) patch, I had still not
> started to use f-spot. In particular, I had not started tagging my
> pictures yet.
>
> And I had decided that I would start tonight.
>
> But... as I was about to start tagging, I had a bit of a dilemma: which
> language should I use to name the tags? I'm fluent in both English and
> French, though more comfortable with French, what with it being my
> mother tongue. I use English on my website because I've got many friends
> who can't read French but sometimes wish I was writing the blog entries
> in French since, well, my French is better than my English is.
>
> </introduction>
>
> So, I was wondering which language to use for my tags when it dawned on
> me: why do I have to pick one? Why can't my tags by l10n'd? I should
> have the possibility to set both an English and a French name for each
> tag I create and f-spot would choose the right language for display
> depending on the current locale. Or even better, I would have the
> possibility to change the tag language dynamically, without restarting
> f-spot.
>
> What about you? Would like this kind of functionnality? Or am I a
> strange guy with strange needs? If there is interest, I might have a
> closer look at how this could be implemented. I've already had a quick
> look at the XMP spec (since I don't think it would be difficult to add
> support in f-spot, if it were not for interoperability) and to me it
> sounds like while the spec allows multilingual titles, it doesn't allow
> multilingual keywords. I can already picture multiple XMP keywords for a
> single f-spot tag, and all the headaches that would entail :(
>
> Anyway, sorry for the long email and please lemme know what you think
> about that crack I've been smoking.
>
> Heippa,
> Thomas "mercen" PARIS

I think that it's a great idea. My personal website is also bilingual,
so having the tags in two languages would be very nice indeed.

Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com