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@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@ # Tasks +## TODO Add decision on using language identifier for translation, but not the country {#task-ce5cd33e-b3a1-1606-0d78-0d9586b07529} +- TODO in 2021-07-06 + +--- + +Wikipedia has the best approach to translations, in my opinion, and I'm considering following it, or do something inspired by it. + +The main concept is do translate content based on the language, but not the country. +So instead of having a `pt_PT` and a `pt_BR` version, there is only one `pt` version, and local differences are included in the translation itself. + +Other than the obvious benefit of requiring less translations to exist, I like the fact that they are capable of capturing the language, without excluding different countries or communities that speak them. + +Everywhere else I see the country as part of the language identifier or the translation, and I don't like it. +Personally, I'd rather have a text that is a little bit less idiomatic to a country, but is universal to the language. + +Wikipedia has other decisions that I disagree with, such as serving different content for desktop and mobile, from different DNS addresses ([1], [2]). +That is just to say that I want to take some of their ideas, but not all. + +[1]: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2009/06/30/wikimedia-mobile-launch/ +[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Mobile#About + ## CANCELLED Add `EXIT_STATUS` section to manpage {#task-d6f1ddb3-2111-bcdb-1873-0a414a5f7157} - CANCELLED in 2021-06-27 |