Localisation is too hard for Gmail

Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by int_19h on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:43AM (#24847229)

This is also how localized special folder names (Documents, Pictures etc) work in Windows. And I think it's also the same in KDE and Gnome?

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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by jan6 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:39AM (#24848306)

well, gnome creates folders in whatever language you installed with, tho it can translate the file manager's sidebar items, I think... so a change of locale means you'd still have the old dir left, and show as old name everywhere except the special shortcuts

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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by londons_explore on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:55AM (#24847900)

Only in the search index... If you try to install your application in "C:\Program Files\" on a non-english version of windows, you'll have a bad time...

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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by int_19h on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:01AM (#24848512)

Not since Vista. These days, you'll always have "Program Files", and if you have the OS configured for a different locale, it'll create a hard link for the localized name. The Windows shell (including the standard file picker dialogs etc) will also use the localized name preferentially whenever it has to display a path that contains one of those folders, but still allows verbatim paths to be used wherever text input is allowed.

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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by kryptiskt on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:33AM (#24848253)

I use Swedish Windows, and here "C:\Program\" (the localization) and "C:\Program Files\" both work fine and go to the same place.

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