Google, what are these absolutely cursed date format options!??
Just give me YYYY-MM-DD 😭
I literally have to count out the month names on my fingers since for a decade+ I have lived in a world of Japanese dates (numbered months) and SQL timestamps 😭
Does anyone know how I can contribute to dictionaries used in FOSS?
The Norwegian bokmål dictionary that comes with stuff like LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, and just Linux in general it seem – or at least it's used just in Linux applications where there's just built in spell checking without having to install a dictionary – is in a terrible state. Some of the most used words are not in it. I want to help make it better. But how? spelling.org is down, now what?
@roptat thanks for your nice visualization of #l18n in apps in #FDroid
https://i18n.lepiller.eu/i18n.html it is interesting to see which languages are the most active. If you're interested in more data sources, there are a lot of public data sources:
https://f-droid.org/docs/All_our_APIs/
For example, you might enjoy looking at the most popular search queries with the included language and country data:
https://fdroid.gitlab.io/metrics/search.f-droid.org/2024-01-29.json
@shironeko @kly yeah, I know from @ubuntu in the Languague settings that one can install and uninstall languagues and just drag & drop the priority of those.
This does impact the default settings and installed localization packages, tho IMHO Apps should provide this as a setting like: "System Default", English, Norwegian, ... to select.
After all, this would also make #i18n & #l18n easier to test and proofread.
OFC I do acknowledge that #Accessibility isn't usually the first priority, but getting it up and running is more important...
Still, I think that seperating backend and frontend can make that process easier espechally if an app is also intended to get #i18n / #Internationalization and #l18n / #Localization.
OFC I don't expect every little #CLI tool to come with a multi-languaged TTS & Voice Command interface...