Re: [g-a-devel]recent gnopernicus "Language" files and support

[Janina Sajka <janina afb net>]

I want to speak up in strong support of appropriate approaches that
support on the fly language changes. Frankly, it should even be possible
to change laanguage in the middle of a document given the appropriate
XML/HTML tagging.

I have no idea whether GNOME is multilingual, or simply supports
numerous I18N defaults. So, I can speak to the appropriateness of any
particular approach. I do know that AT has to date failed miserably in
this regard--no doubt a reflection of too much U.S. influence in the AT
industry. It would be very good for that to change, of course, and it
would be most delightful if GNOME accessibility, Mozilla, and
Gnopernicus could come out of the gate, with version 1.0, setting a
standard for others to emmulate.



remus draica writes:
> From: remus draica <rd baum ro>
> 
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> The idea is to change language at run-time.
> Let suppose that user is using gedit with english interface. He opens a 
> document in german. If somehow gnopernicus can find that the document is in 
> german, it will display characters on braille using german translation table 
> and will ask speech to speak in german.
> 
> A more general idea is:
>   - gnopernicus is started with LANGUAGE=en
>   - one application is started with LANGUAGE = de and other with LANGUAGE = ro
> when gnopernicus read first application is nice to show on braille and to 
> speak in german, and, for the second is nice to use romanian.
> 
> If these scenarios are not realistic, please let me know.
> 
> Best regards,
> Remus  
> 
> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:53, you wrote:
> > Hi Remus,
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 12:21, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > > It's unusual for users to choose a language for an application other
> > > than via the standard environment variables.
> >
> > 	Quite; what is the purpose of that ? ultimately, all the apps that are
> > being poked at via at-spi, will be returning strings localised to the
> > values of the standard environment variables; what advantage is there
> > then to having one app in a different language ? seems like it could be
> > a big source of confusion:
> >
> > 	 "why doesn't the language change when I change it in
> > 	  gnopernicus"
> >
> > 	etc. since the language can only be effectively changed at login time.
> >
> > 	HTH,
> >
> > 		Michael.
> _______________________________________________
> Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list
> Gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina afb net		Phone: (202) 408-8175