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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by parliament32 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:46PM (#24850793)
Wouldn't it make more sense to, when the user switches languages, check for label/folder name collisions and deal with it then? Alternatively save all the built-in labels (Trash, Bin, etc) as reserved words so users can't create custom folders with those names?
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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by joshuamorton on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:04PM (#24850949)
> check for label/folder name collisions and deal with it then?

How?

> Alternatively save all the built-in labels (Trash, Bin, etc) as reserved

So now all localizations are reserved words? And ultimately, this may be a reasonable approach from the beginning, but how many people's accounts are you willing to break to institute this change now?

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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by parliament32 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:52PM (#24852054)
If there's a collision? Pop an error and offer to rename the custom folder..
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