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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by robotresearcher on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:42PM (#24850212)
Reserve a system label prefix e.g. '_' and forbid users to create labels with that prefix. Then the labels '_Trash' and '_Bin' are exact aliases, and users can't accidentally collide with them.
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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by joshuamorton on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:52PM (#24850308)
Ah so now I have to search in _Trash instead of in Trash which makes label discovery and use worse and confusing for all users.
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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by dash2 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:27PM (#24850627)
No. The point is that the search language has to be localized. When you type in:bin in en_GB or in:trash in en_US, the system has to work out that you mean _Trash. Doesn't seem that hard.
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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by joshuamorton on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:35PM (#24850699)
But what if you have a custom label bin or trash?
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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by robotresearcher on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:58PM (#24850898)
In en_US 'Trash' is an alias for '_Trash' but 'bin' is not.

But yes, it's getting complicated. I can see why they just stopped with changing the GUI labels and left the workings in canonical US mode.

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